Fighting objections from the wife

[Santa Wally]

After retiring in 2006 and becoming "snowbirds" (people from northern states who go south for the Winter), in 2007, my wife and I happened to in Zephyrhills Florida on the weekend of the Celtic Festival (had never been to any). We went to see what it was all about. I bought a highland shirt that would work for a Workshop Santa look. Two years later, we returned specifically to buy another shirt but the vendor was not there. But I did find an off-the-rack Wallace kilt. I have Wallace ancestry, but wasn't told much about it as I grew up. (Last year I found out that a Wallace ancestor of mine came to America in the 1720's) After buying that Wallace kilt, I changed into it and my wife said, "when are you ever going to wear that again?" I NOW HAVE SEVEN KILTS.

So with 7 kilts I have answered her question many times, but I no longer wear that original kilt... I got rid of that acrylic kilt after finding X Marks the Scot and learning so much about the proper care and treatment for the OBSESSION caused by that first kilt.

I wore that first kilt a week later with the Clan Claus Society and joined it. Within about 4 months, my second kilt was a USAK Casual kilt and wife got used to seeing me in it and the obsession continued. That second kilt was a test for my measurements for my wool Clan Claus tartan kilt. (STA # 7869).

I drive our motorhome wearing any one of my three USAK PV Casual Kilts (Stewart Royal, Wallace or Isle of Skye). Stewart Royal is the tartan of Edinboro University in Pennsylvania where I got my Bachelors Degree. We go festivals and games in my Clan Claus kilt when the Clan Claus Society has a tent there, House of Edgar tank when the Clan Wallace Society has a tent there, or one of my two latest acquisitions: USAK 5 yard wool Batleys Maple Leaf or X Marks the Scot tartan Freedom Kilt.

I started wearing kilts in our Florida RV resort, our Tennessee campground and when with our adult daughters and grandkids. My wife no longer questions my kilt wearing, except I can't wear a kilt to our teenage granddaughter's dance competitions (Scottish or Irish dancing), she does not want me to take attention away from the dancers.

Posted while wearing my USAK Isle of Skye Casual Kilt.