Quote Originally Posted by parpin
Hi all,

Last fall I did myself a retirement gift by buying a complete jacobean kilt outfit with the province of Quebec tartan and decided to wear it at my retirement party held last january.

I enjoy wearing the kilt even if I have no scottish origin, Maybe in an other life I was a Scot. :-)

My working companions and my beloved boss had mixed feeling looking at me and I wondered after if it was tacky to do that.

To get the feedback of my website visitors I ran a poll to get the right answer and here are the results :

Yes it's tacky : 61 %
No : 27 %
Not sure : 12 %

I accepted gracefully the verdict but I disagree with it, but I would do it again anyway.

In fact the greatest resistance about wearing a kilt comes from my own family.
Since it was a Jacobean outfit, perhaps they saw it as too much like a costume. It might have been different if you had been kilted with a nice tweed jacket and other modern accessories.

That being said, it was your retirement party. Who cares what they think anymore?