Wives' reactions?

[AL-58]

Marie loves the kilt, her only problem is that I wasnt ready to wear the kilt at our wedding. Family? not a problem (except little brother but who cares), my parents are no longer alive. Father in law also enjoys the highland dress, which we use as a way of getting together a few times each year as they live 7 hours drive away.

Al

[Ivy]

My wife was a bit ambivalent. She said, "As long as you're comfortable, I don't care what you wear." But she did say that she showed a picture of me at work and all of the ladies thought I looked good.

[celtic cowboy]

Mine has tried to teach herseldf to knit so I can have as many pairs of hose as I want. She hand stiched her first kilted skirt. She never asks if I am going to wear a kilt, but which kilt I am going to wear. Also she is a very proud Scots-Irish gal, who is more than happy to answer the "Question" for me. Who could ask for more......Well I wonder if she can weave? Better leave that one alone.

[ThistleDown]

Ruth is Swiss. I am a Scot. We met in Canada. I was kilted. When we married in Canada I was kilted and she wore a tartan silk sash woven especially for her. We attend many Scottish events in Western Canada and she wears tartan (mostly) and in Scotland when she feels it is appropriate. I wear the kilt almost exclusively in both places. When she doesn't feel like wearing tartan she wears something that will colour-work with the kilt I am wearing (or she has chosen for me to wear ) She knits my hose, chooses and straightens my ties and I find wonderful silver for her to wear (the Tain Silversmith, Dougie Scott, is my favourite, but that's a secret, so don't tell her!). I rarely wear the kilt in her hometown, Davos, in Switzerland. She has never asked why. There's never been any discussion about any of this that I can recall, just consideration and understanding on both sides. I count myself fortunate.

[Highlander31]

My wife loves kilts, and makes it clear that she is not happy on those days when I choose not to wear a kilt. She would like me to pick up a Utilikilt or two to kick around in. While I prefer my tank or my great kilt to the modern kilts (I just prefer the way heavy wool kilts look.)

[PiobBear]

Mine just doesn't like my full-face sporran; says it looks like I'm doing something unnatural to a small animal.

[Ian.MacAllan]

My wife was rather cautious at first; she seemed to feel that I was springing this on her because I had never before mentioned an interest in the kilt. I told her, in truth, that I had been interested in wearing the kilt for 40 years, but before the WWW had never found a vendor whose prices I thought I could afford..

We discussed the matter at some length, and when it became clear that I was talking about just one kilt and would not back down, she said with evident resignation, "Well, I guess it's cheaper than a little red sports car." (We have a close friend who celebrated his youngest child's graduation and his retirement by buying a red Miata.) Once she saw
a. how well I looked in a kilt,
b. how much interest I suddenly took in color-co-ordinated clothing, and
c. how willing I suddenly became to dispose of old clothing she wanted me to stop wearing,
she became positively enthusiastic about my kilts. Five months later I had seven of them.

Since then I have bought one more and graduated from off-the-peg to ordering a Matt Newsome box pleat. Life is good.

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[Ivy]

My wife was pretty much ambivalent. She said that she doesn't care what I wear as long as it makes me happy. That seems like an awful lot of leeway to me...

Her family is of Scottish descent and her Dad and brother wore kilts at our wedding, so I guess it didn't faze her. Plus we live in Seattle, so the sight of a man in a kilt is not all that out of the ordinary.

[Erikm]

My wife is ok with it I don't think it's something she wants me to wear everyday, but I can live with that...

[greenman11]

Mine in fact encouraged me in my first purchase. I now own three types for different situations. The Scot is definetly out of the Sporran.