Overhearing People

[Phogfan86]

I like MacLeod just for that very reason: it has to be noticed.

November 30 is the feast day of St. Andrew, so last year I decided to wear my kilt all day. I was going drop my son (10) off at parochial school, go to 8 a.m. Mass and then head off to work. I was decked out in kilt, sporran, hose & flashes, sgian dubh and a nice, heavy sweater. When I got him to school, my kiddo asked me to come in and show his teacher, and I was happy to.

I didn't really notice anything as we walked through the halls, but when we got to his classroom, there was lots of whispering and stares. His teacher did a great job of seizing the opportunity: she asked the class to take their seats and invited me to talk about my outfit, where it came from, family tartans, etc. The more I talked, the more interested the kids got. Needless to say, the boys were most interested in my sgian dubh.

Since the kids wear uniforms, I was even able to point out to the girls that their skirts were Black Stewart and Royal Stewart Tartan, which they thought was cool.

I live in Kansas, and frankly, I'm surprised at the lack of comments and weird looks I get. Granted, I'm pretty selective about where I go when wearing my male unbifurcated garment, but still...

My oldest son (16) and I went to Target after a recent St. Andrew Society meeting, and he even commented on the lack of stares.

[Geoff Withnell]

I was in Arundel Mills (a large outlet shopping mall near Annapolis) this weekend and overheard an amusing dialog. I heard behind me "Hey look at the weido in the skirt!" followed immediately by a loud whisper "It's a kilt, idiot, and he's wearing a Marine Corps flash on a Spec Ops beret, shut up!"
I was able to catch sight, reflected in a store window, of two teenage boys, who had for some reason found the opposite side of the mall fascinating.

Geoff Withnell

[TheKiltedCoder]

I was in Arundel Mills (a large outlet shopping mall near Annapolis) this weekend and overheard an amusing dialog. I heard behind me "Hey look at the weido in the skirt!" followed immediately by a loud whisper "It's a kilt, idiot, and he's wearing a Marine Corps flash on a Spec Ops beret, shut up!"
I was able to catch sight, reflected in a store window, of two teenage boys, who had for some reason found the opposite side of the mall fascinating.

Geoff Withnell

Kind of like my wife at work. She was telling some of her co-workers about my preference for being kilted, and that I'm hopefully going to be testing for my black belt in hapkido in a couple of months, and according to her, when she got to the end of the story, there was silence for perhaps 15 seconds.

Then, someone pipes up with, "Oh, so he's trolling for idiots. Got it."

Brian

[Scratchy's Lass]

"It's a kilt, idiot, and he's wearing a Marine Corps flash on a Spec Ops beret, shut up!"