Look, you wear a kilt when practically nobody else does ... you're an oddball. Of course, so am I.

It's OK to be an oddball. One of the advantages of being an oddball is that nobody ever expects an oddball to have "reasons" for being one outside of simply being odd. In fact, if you start to make it your habit to explain yourself you cease to be an oddball and cross over into the realm of being an troublemaker.

It is said that a member of polite society will dress not for himself but for others. Search this site if you will but you will find no posts that directly state that anyone here wears a kilt for anyone but themselves. My comfort, my heritage, my testicular health ... to the discomfort of others, wives being a particularly thorny subset of the society we are defying.

Your most effective defense of wearing your kilt is simply to offer no defense at all while consistently wearing it. Your consistency will establish your eccentricity and your eccentricity will be answer enough. You have to accept that to be an eccentric you must, by definition, not care about the opinions of others regarding it. If you care about your wife's discomfort then you are simply putting your own sense of comfort ahead of hers, something a true eccentric wouldn't be aware of doing.

Oddly enough, it seems many people in polite society enjoy the occassional oddball, even envy him a bit. It is possible that one day there will be enough of us kilt wearing oddballs that it will cease to be odd to wear one. But until that unlikely distant day I will continue to embrace my own oddness with out apology and ...

Kilt On.

Chris Webb