Anyone's spouse/significant other vehemently opposed to you kilting?

[privypiper2002]

My wife was a highland dancer back in the day. The only issue she had was when I was going out to pipe a gig one night and as I was walking out in my highland finery she reached under my kilt and took hold of my... "complete attention" and stated, "Scotland is free, you are not! Put on some underpants." That was about the extent of my kilt wearing troubles.

[Geoff Withnell]

My wife was a highland dancer back in the day. The only issue she had was when I was going out to pipe a gig one night and as I was walking out in my highland finery she reached under my kilt and took hold of my... "complete attention" and stated, "Scotland is free, you are not! Put on some underpants." That was about the extent of my kilt wearing troubles.

Michele agrees. But people asking about it are probably the main issue she has with kilt wearing - "The Question". But I am a fortunate man, that she loves how I look.

[Dale Seago]

My ex-wife really disliked it, generally made disparaging remarks if I was about to wear it to anything but a Scottish event.

My girlfriend really likes me in a kilt, though lately she has been making a point of asking for a little "p@nts time" now and then. I'm fine with that.

[BuchananBiker]

My wife was a highland dancer back in the day. The only issue she had was when I was going out to pipe a gig one night and as I was walking out in my highland finery she reached under my kilt and took hold of my... "complete attention" and stated, "Scotland is free, you are not! Put on some underpants." That was about the extent of my kilt wearing troubles.

Ha ha ha ha, snort, ha ha!
Your wife is awesome. That's the funniest thing I've read in days.

[seanachie]

My wife is Chinese, born in El Paso but her mother was born in China and her paternal grandparents immigrated from China to grow produce along the Rio Grand. As a point of pride, not arrogance, she points out so many things that existed in China well before they were introduced in China. She read the article that a member either wrote or linked here some time ago that discussed tartan being discovered in western China that was 3,000 years old. So it has become a joke about tartan being more Sino than Celtic. Hence, no issues with the kilt and I have worn one all over China on vacation fall 2010.

[CDNSushi]

So it has become a joke about tartan being more Sino than Celtic. Hence, no issues with the kilt and I have worn one all over China on vacation fall 2010.

Maybe that's why we've lasted in Japan for nearly a decade... Eastern cultures, despite being very closed-minded about SOME things, can be extremely OPEN-minded about many others. Kilts (and sarongs for that matter), I've found, are one thing that are respected and accepted as important to someone's culture -- and therefore off-limits to name-calling, criticism, or negative comments. (Mind you, I HAVE been laughed at -- but generally by children and teens who know no better, even of their OWN culture and history, let alone someone else's).

The only place I've ever had any kind of negative comment has been in my native land of Canada, where a pickup truck full of young'uns just leaving the bar, yelled across the parking lot and called me another word denoting "a bundle of sticks."

[seanachie]

Maybe that's why we've lasted in Japan for nearly a decade... Eastern cultures, despite being very closed-minded about SOME things, can be extremely OPEN-minded about many others. Kilts (and sarongs for that matter), I've found, are one thing that are respected and accepted as important to someone's culture -- and therefore off-limits to name-calling, criticism, or negative comments. (Mind you, I HAVE been laughed at -- but generally by children and teens who know no better, even of their OWN culture and history, let alone someone else's).

The only place I've ever had any kind of negative comment has been in my native land of Canada, where a pickup truck full of young'uns just leaving the bar, yelled across the parking lot and called me another word denoting "a bundle of sticks."

Never thought about that, but seems to be a lot of truth to what you are saying. I had not one negative comment anywhere is China. Many places I visited people wanted there picture taken with me, even when it was inconvenient I tried to oblige. The one picture I wish I had was from Xian. I was approached by a number of elderly men who were part of Mao's cadres. They knew no English but were obviously talking about the kilt, I proffered my hand and they enthusiastically shook it. There were communist officials around so my wife defered on the camera....

sorry for the slight thread detour

[castledangerous]

...she points out so many things that existed in China well before they were introduced in China. <snip>

Huh?

[seanachie]

Huh?

Late night synapses stop firing as well, meant to say "she points out so many things that existed in China well before they were introduced inthe west"

Thanks for catching my mistake.

[TheBrus]

It would seem probable that tartan could have been "invented" in many places either simultaneously or at different times with no cultural interaction. But isn't it interesting to think that in spite of outwardly different cultures that in so many places people are having the same ideas? Facetiously, I'd say that tartan might possibly have been invented by God and given to humans. No one can say when the idea to make little box-shaped patterns was spawned, but it must have been on the second or third day after the first person wove cloth.