Family objections to wearing your kilt

**Dall_Piobaire** · 28th July 09, 11:07 AM

Interesting, from the sounds of it, we need a first wives club!

My mom loves the fact that I play the pipes and ecourages the wearing of the kilt, pushes it in fact. See, there has always been a struggle for who has the most interesting side of the family. Her side, of course, is Boyd. Now on my dad's side we are directly descended from Mayflower passengers, as well as Standish, Aldens, and Brewsters, as well as having family that was nobility in Strathmore. More amusingly, or not, I have found that Boyds opposed Sampson during the Revolutionary war, somehow that is not hard to believe!

My son loves all things Scottish, and is truly proud of his heritage. My daughter, well, I had taken it for granted that most all teenage girls find their parents, particularly their fathers, at the least, embarassing!

Now my ex was born and raised in Aberdeen, came here for a bit in her late teens, went back and was given a horrible time about being "American". This put her off of her heritage and Scotland almost completely. Now all of the sudden, with my son's strong interest, she is all interested and flouting it again. Loves to point out that my side of the family is much more removed than her's.

Ah, let the games begin!!!

**MacKay71 Wife** · 28th July 09, 11:15 AM

Originally Posted by Dall_Piobaire

Interesting, from the sounds of it, we need a first wives club!

I second that! Although he is my second husband, I am his first wife. Wish I had chosen better the first time around! Maybe I should've just looked for someone wearing a kilt and proceeded from there!!!

**Stratherrick** · 28th July 09, 11:22 AM

Had I worn a kilt on my first wedding day, my ex would've walked back down the aisle!

My wife and soulmate now, well, I wore my kilt and, along with a strip of her Ghanaian father's kente cloth, we tied a piece of Fraser tartan around our wrists in our handfasting!

I love my wife sooo much!

Bruce

**Nighthawk** · 28th July 09, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by Stratherrick

Had I worn a kilt on my first wedding day, my ex would've walked back down the aisle!

My wife and soulmate now, well, I wore my kilt and, along with a strip of her Ghanaian father's kente cloth, we tied a piece of Fraser tartan around our wrists in our handfasting!

I love my wife sooo much!

Bruce

Nice!! My wife actually wanted me to wear an Amerikilt for our wedding. I have always said that I regard myself as a modern man steeped in tradition, and that's how she saw the AK. So it's my wife's fault that I got my first cotemporary klt. Up to that point, it was just my one trad that no longer fit me.

**Dall_Piobaire** · 28th July 09, 12:23 PM

Originally Posted by MacKay71 Wife

I second that! Although he is my second husband, I am his first wife. Wish I had chosen better the first time around! Maybe I should've just looked for someone wearing a kilt and proceeded from there!!!

Okay than, to be fair, How bout this, and this is with you in mind Lady MacKay. The 2nd time round club!

**MacKay71 Wife** · 28th July 09, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by Dall_Piobaire

Okay than, to be fair, How bout this, and this is with you in mind Lady MacKay. The 2nd time round club!

Again, works for me!! Fortunately for my husband, though no one in my family has worn a kilt in more than 200 years, I have always been of the mind that a man in a kilt is very manly and very sexy. I now prefer him to wear a kilt than anything else! It's all about perspective. I don't always recommend this route, but if any of the ladies in your lives don't like your kilts, try buying one or more of those trashy Historical novels from Wal-Mart - the ones with the guy in the kilt on front - and see if they approve of that guy wearing a kilt!!!

**Dixiecat** · 28th July 09, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by Dall_Piobaire

Okay than, to be fair, How bout this, and this is with you in mind Lady MacKay. The 2nd time round club!

I'm currently going through a divorce myself and I tried to get him to wear a kilt. He would not have anything to do with it. So, I'd like to join this club when it gets started. Currently accepting applications for #2 ;)

**Nighthawk** · 28th July 09, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by sathor

My wife tried that at first, we got in an argument, I told her that if she was going to dictate what I wear, I was going to do the same of her.

She got used to my kilts, and after buying her a laptop this week, she can't stop my next kilt purchase if she wanted to.

That would be my attitude as well. In a society where women seem to think that the and men should be equals, it seems insane that there are women who would actually disallow their husbands to right to dress themselves. (Luckily, my wife finds kilted men to be more manly, given the fact that pants are unisex and kilts are almost exlusively masculine. She actually will not go out in public with me unless me I'm dressed "like a man."

Lucky me!! )

**Dall_Piobaire** · 28th July 09, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by Dixiecat

I'm currently going through a divorce myself and I tried to get him to wear a kilt. He would not have anything to do with it. So, I'd like to join this club when it gets started. Currently accepting applications for #2 ;)

Hi Dixie,

Sorry to hear you are going through that mess. We make light of it here but it is horrible to go through. Even if you want out, there is still regret, recrimination, all that crap. I had two small children, well 8 and 10, who are the centre of my world, That made it really hard. Now they seem to be off in an orbit all their own!

I have relatives up near you, well, Prince Edward Island. I'll have to see if you are around when next I do up.

Good luck and hang in there, it sucks but it does get better.

FREEEDOOOOOMMMMM, said in a Aussie accent trying to be Scots

Scott