an average day in a kilt?

[furrycelt]

...but ive noticed(believe it or not) that wearing my kilt is incredebly confortable, good looking and scores chicks at my concerts haha so i wanna start breaking the kilt into everyday use but im curious as to what you guys do in your kilts on a day to day basis...as well as how practicall they are for your situations..thanks for the help dudes

i wear a kilt everyday all the time. ok that isn't 100% accurate. i do NOT wear pants or shorts or any type of bifurcated garment at all, ever!

so i do everything that life normally demands. this echoes what others have said, of course. but i know what you are getting it. you want to know about all the little things, the little differences.

yes, you get stared at, you get comments/questions; and that is to be expected as you are now not blending in with the herd. and yes you will spend your day being more comfortable. these are obvious. but the less obvious stuff...

pants do allow one to just plop themselves into a car without a thought about it. i had to figure out a way to enter the car without getting all the pleats waded up under me. i enter the car butt first, the swing around. the material under my right cheek tends to ride along with me turning and settling in, under the left cheek i do a sweep forward with my hand. if i mess up, i can reach between my thighs and pull the bottom edge and try to flatten down in mountains of fabric. (all this is from an american driver with a steering-wheel on the port side of the vehicle.) while this sounds complicated, it is now second nature to me. this particular topic has been discussed before on this forum, some searching will turn up other opinions i am sure.

also, i don't wear kilts if i am going to do some dirty/dangerous work. i don't have enough kilts yet so that i can sacrifice one to getting ripped and stained. like i didn't wear a kilt to do a brake job on my car recently.

sitting: when you sit, just be conscious that you let some fabric fall between your thighs. for example: if there is no table or furniture to block views, and others are sitting across from you, they might see more than you want them too. again, this is something that you will quickly get used and and do without thinking about it

wind: wind is not as bad as you might think. i have never had a gust of open wind blow my kilt up. what normally happens is that the wind just presses the kilt against the windward side of your person. what can be tricky is parking lots. standing next to a car on a windy day will cause your kilt to fly up. as the wind passes under a car, there is almost always an updraft on the leeward side. sporrans and the snap configuration on Utilikilts will protect your front side modesty more or less, but if you don't have your hands free, updrafts will let you moon the world. but again, this is something that happens infrequently, and you get used to it.

bottom line: the disadvantages of pants far out-weighs the disadvantages of kilts. unless you are doing something extreme; there's no reason you can't wear a kilt.