Kilted while shopping

[mcpelle]

spent all weekend in kilt, went to SW kilt night, had great time. Booked in hotel, 3 girls at reception desk, no one seemed to care about what I was wearing. Coming home we had to stop at Zellers department store, again no reaction to my wearing a kilt. We continued on and stopped at wal-mart, really nobody seemed to care. We also went to the Canadian Legion, some members came to talk to us, never mentioned anything about my kilt. Had a great time.
McPelle

[auld argonian]

Oh, heck...I'll say it again: the way some of the folks around here dress to go out and conduct commerce, a kilt is positively FORMAL looking! I've got grown men showing up at the supermarket wearing those damn pajama pants and their flip flops (it still like in the thirties degree-wise in Chicago...and that's fahrenheit, you metric types!) and these guys are not in the best shape of their lives, either...what do they think that their teenagers? I got the teenagers with the pants hanging off their arses and dragging behind them for a foot and a half along the ground. It's like trying to live with the cast of "RENT" floating around fer cryin' out loud! So instead of these people asking us "why are you wearing a kilt to the grocery store?" they should be THANKING us for bringing the tone up a notch!

Rant, rant, rant, rant, rant!

Best

AA

[UmAnOnion]

Oh, heck...I'll say it again: the way some of the folks around here dress to go out and conduct commerce, a kilt is positively FORMAL looking! I've got grown men showing up at the supermarket wearing those damn pajama pants and their flip flops (it still like in the thirties degree-wise in Chicago...and that's fahrenheit, you metric types!) and these guys are not in the best shape of their lives, either...what do they think that their teenagers? I got the teenagers with the pants hanging off their arses and dragging behind them for a foot and a half along the ground. It's like trying to live with the cast of "RENT" floating around fer cryin' out loud! So instead of these people asking us "why are you wearing a kilt to the grocery store?" they should be THANKING us for bringing the tone up a notch!

Rant, rant, rant, rant, rant!

Best

AA

You are preaching to the choir here AA & all i can say to that is PREACH ON!!!

[Blu (Ontario)]

I rarely get comments any more. However, I do get quite a few double takes... mostly from the middle eastern folks that populate the neighborhood. I suspect most people just figure I'm a bit eccentric. As far as Wal*Mart goes... it seems to attract a "diverse" clientele most of time, so a guy in a kilt will fit right in!

[GMan]

I rarely get comments at the stores I usually shop at. However one tim I heard over the PA system "John we need a Kilt on checkstand 3" I was walking by checkstand 3 at the time. Great laugh for everyone.

[Moosehead]

I'm with ya on that Argonian. Cripes, maybe we all should have been born in Victorian or Edwardian times. For that matter, anywhere up until the '60s. I'm sick and tired of people actually thinking they are "kewl" dressed like frickin' pigs. And, usually, smelling just as bad. Where goeth their pride??? :confused:

[GlassMan]

I'm with ya on that Argonian. Cripes, maybe we all should have been born in Victorian or Edwardian times. For that matter, anywhere up until the '60s. I'm sick and tired of people actually thinking they are "kewl" dressed like frickin' pigs. And, usually, smelling just as bad. Where goeth their pride??? :confused:

I whole heartedly agree. Even if I'm going to be at home all day working on the computer I still get dressed, put on a nice kilt, dress shirt and a tie. The only person I'll be seeing until Nopadon gets home is the dog, but I still take pride in my appearance.

And while men are notoriously poor dressers, I'm noticing that the culprits are now just as likely to be females.

The wife of a friend of ours threw him a surprise birthday party last year. It was a combination birthday & Christmas party and on the invitations we were asked to dress well (coat but tie optional). All of the guests looked wonderful. But when we arrived the hostess was wearing green pajama pants, a nasty old red t-shirt, and fuzzy pink flip-flops. I assumed that she had been too busy to dress before guests started to arrive and that she would chance at the first available opportunity. But no, that was her outfit for the evening. And while his female friends all came dressed for a fine evening out, all of her friends looked like they were ready for a campus slumber-party. It was positively disgraceful. Of course, she's also the woman who switched from heels to another set of plastic flip-flops partway through her wedding ceremony. She couldn't even wait for the reception. And her dress wasn't long enough to hide her choice of footwear.

No one takes pride in their appearance anymore. I'm about to take the dog out for a walk (okay, she'll be walking and I'll be in my wheelchair) and I'm wearing my daywear tweed jacket and a tie!

[Kilted KT]

Oh, heck...I'll say it again: the way some of the folks around here dress to go out and conduct commerce, a kilt is positively FORMAL looking! I've got grown men showing up at the supermarket wearing those damn pajama pants and their flip flops (it still like in the thirties degree-wise in Chicago...and that's fahrenheit, you metric types!) and these guys are not in the best shape of their lives, either...what do they think that their teenagers? I got the teenagers with the pants hanging off their arses and dragging behind them for a foot and a half along the ground. It's like trying to live with the cast of "RENT" floating around fer cryin' out loud! So instead of these people asking us "why are you wearing a kilt to the grocery store?" they should be THANKING us for bringing the tone up a notch!

Rant, rant, rant, rant, rant!

Best

AA

Same here in Oklahoma. I think nightclothes are replacing jeans as the default garment of choice for the non-kilt-aware.