How old were you when you first wore a kilt?

**Stratherrick** · 3rd January 10, 02:59 AM

I tried on my cousin's kilt sometime in my late teens and was hooked. I then didn't wear one again until I was 40 years old when I bought my one and only kilt.

How about you?

Slainte

Bruce

**Paul** · 3rd January 10, 03:08 AM

I wore one for my first Holy Communion when I was 8!
It then took me another 8 years to wear another to my prom when I was 16.
Now I'm 19 and I own several

**OC Richard** · 3rd January 10, 03:18 AM

18... and it was a homemade one my grandmother and I came up with from looking at photos, as we had never seen one in person. I wish I had a photo of that thing! I have no idea where it ended up.

**Jock Scot** · 3rd January 10, 03:56 AM

I was told by those that knew, long gone now, that I was about 4 when I first wore the kilt.

**Stratherrick** · 3rd January 10, 04:11 AM

Jock

You may well be the winner of the 'Earliest sighting in a kilt' competition, though we're bound to have some cad say he was BORN wearing one!

I wonder who started wearing the kilt at the most advanced age?

Slainte

Bruce

**Squeaky McMurdo** · 6th January 10, 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by Stratherrick

we're bound to have some cad say he was BORN wearing one!

Well, I plan to put my next baby in this (waist size 15)

As his first outfit...unless it's a girl, then we'll loose the sporran, tie, and waistcoat.

--Chelsea McMurdo--

**Jan Otto B** · 3rd January 10, 04:27 AM

I was 53 when in Scotland the first time; I bought my first kilt then, a Royal Stewart of course. (In the huge kilt shop in Edinburgh, full of the most beautiful tartans, the shop owner said te me: "that's what I have for you, the other tartans aren't appropiate).

**Uncle Ricky** · 3rd January 10, 05:33 AM

I was about 55. I was invited to a Robbie Burns dinner, and decided to rent a kilt. It changed my life. I found freedom! and floor mounted heating ducts.

No turning back after that eh?

**NewEnglander** · 3rd January 10, 06:16 AM

Just last year when I turned 30 I asked my family for a kilt. I plan on buying myself my 3rd for this upcoming birthday in February.

**Seumas52** · 3rd January 10, 12:18 PM

If my aged memory serves me correctly I was around 12 or 13 yo. A cousin had given me a cast off (but still great condition) red Fraser, modern kilt. A few years later I joined a pipe band and have been wearing them since. No longer piping, but still kilted.