What if you....

[Mipi]

Something struck my mind yesterday…

Just a hypothetical question to you kilt addicts: “Can you imagine how would you feel, if for some reason, you stop wearing a kilt???”

OK, I’m not wearing a kilt all the time. Not even near to that. But…. I just hardly wait to put it on and enjoy the comfort. Immediately I become more relaxed.

Is this an addiction? If it is, it’s very nice and harmless (healthy one even would say).

[Bugbear]

* GASP!! *

Nah, it isn't that way for me. I was in love with putting together an outfit; that's the exciting part. I wear it for special times, but that is about all now.

[TheBlueCow]

Well, that's much like the stories we see Xmarkers tell all too often of an event where someone won't allow them to wear the kilt. I would feel much like they do when they are told that (i.e. quite upset).

I don't wear a kilt very often, certainly not as often as I'd like to, but just knowing that I have kilts hanging in the closet is something that makes me happy. To me the kilt symbolizes my freedom, my ability to go against the grain. If I were to stop wearing the kilt, even though my day to day life may not change, it would be deeply unsettling to me, and I just wouldn't be the same unless I could find another outlet for that part of my personality.

[cessna152towser]

Well its something I've been thinking about recently, last time I wore trousers was back in October when I stopped wearing my airport uniform at the end of the season (I'm a part-time volunteer in an aviation museum). I also stopped work at the end of October. I will probably go back to work again in the spring but I'm not enthusiastic at the prospect that my next job may call for wearing a uniform which includes trousers as part of the outfit.

[BEEDEE]

My immediate thought if I was to go back to trousers is "Moo! I'm one of the herd"

Brian

[McMurdo]

Well it's not as if the earth's axis will shift, it is simply a choice in clothing, you may as well ask "What if you decided to wear a dress shirt instead of a polo shirt?"Obviously there is a deeper meaning in our hearts to the tartans we wear, a connection to our ancestors for some, for others it's all about comfort. Therefore a question like that can only be answered by the individual. Rest assured though if I were to wear trousers today the sun would rise tomorrow.

[JRB]

I love being kilted. But I have to say that I probably wouldn't miss it too much if I never donned a kilt again. I spent the first 27 years of my life un-kilted and am quite comfortable in pants/shorts. Owning and wearing the kilt is a real treat for me and I have no plans to stop kilting up. However, if I never did so again I believe I would adapt just fine.

[Ian.MacAllan]

For months I would have to put up with "Where's your kilt?" every time I set foot outside my door. That would be far more annoying than the questions I get now.

Besides, being descended from both Scots and German peasants, the loss of my investment in kilts and accessories would scorch my soul. I have no one to whom to pass them on, my son being already a much larger man than I.

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[turpin]

Freedom to wear or not wear the kilt any given day is the Freedom of the kilt. The kilt expands your choice of daily wear. the more kilts, the more choices, the more money invested, the more one might feel "obliged" to wear the kilt.

[sathor]

I would be a bit sad, I don't wear my kilts much, but the feel of pants on my legs bothers me in a way it didn't use to. Making sure they arn't falling or shirt coming untucked and so on annoys me far more than it used to.