Quote Originally Posted by Lyle1 View Post
"Clothes Horse" has such a negative connotation; you make it sound as if there is something wrong with dressing well or at least with some thought as to what you are wearing. I don't obsess over what I am going to wear, but I do put some thought into it; after all, I have to look at what I'm wearing until I take it off.

"some thought"....no problem. I expend "some thought" as well. You know, like maybe 90 seconds. I do occasionally find myself standing by the closet with two articles of clothing, one in each hand. I somtimes discover that I have been dithering over which one to wear for 2, 3 possibly even 4 minutes. This usually happens when I'm short of sleep, have had too much or not enough coffee, of I just talked to my 95 year old stepmother on the telephone.

I have, on occasion asked Mrs. H what she is wearing to an event, and then spent another 90 seconds making the necessary decisions to not walk out of the door wearing something outlandishly out of sync with what she straps on. You know, like wearing a black tie outfit when she's got on blue jeans and flats.

No problem at all with expending "Some thought".

Hey, this is all mostly tongue in cheek. As has been pointed out to me, this is a kilt forum, for guys to talk about wearing kilts. As such, it's going to attract guys who like to talk about clothes. So it's only natural for guys to write about their clothes. I grok that.

I also grok that I'm way, way out on the edge of this particular bell curve, in this particular community. Over on the athletes board, NASGA, I'm the one who's the clothes horse because I own more than two kilts, have been known to publicly check my pleats after leaving the stall in the mens bathroom...not to mention that I actually MAKE kilts and know the meaning of the word "fell". Over there, "fell" is what you did after tripping over the trig board.