"No Thanks"?

[Mikilt]

Many have resisted the kilt only to try it and discover its comfort, wearability and style. Maybe you are one of these people, maybe you are someone who introduced another to the kilt.
But have you ever heard of someone getting a good-fitting kilt and really breaking it in only to say, "No thanks, I prefer trousers"?
It's unfathomable to me that anyone would feel this way, but I thought I'd check with the rabble and see if any of you have encountered this.

[Bugbear]

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[YoungMan]

At the risk of making myself unpopular, I will say that in some situations I prefer pants/shorts. The more casual the activity the more I would favor bifurcation. I grew up in farm country, and there's just no competiting with good carhartts for protection and durability. I find kilts too exposing in rough and tumble situations. (Probably why you don't see them in combat anymore.) I tried being outdoorsy in kilts and just too often found myself thinking pants would be a lot easier.

However, as a rower and runner and owner of beefy quads, I will say I love the openness of the kilt in many respects. Often at work I wish I was kilted bc trousers tend to kill my Hardy boys, and that's no mystery.

[BoldHighlander]

At the risk of making myself unpopular, I will say that in some situations I prefer pants/shorts. The more casual the activity the more I would favor bifurcation. I grew up in farm country, and there's just no competiting with good carhartts for protection and durability. I find kilts too exposing in rough and tumble situations. (Probably why you don't see them in combat anymore.) I tried being outdoorsy in kilts and just too often found myself thinking pants would be a lot easier.

I would agree that there are times that wearing pants/jeans are more pratical (or make more sense), like when I was working a friends green broke gelding & later got tossed head over heels from the back of that cayuse in the pasture!

[Mikilt]

I completely agree that we all may feel that there are some times when trousers are preferable to the kilt. I am interested to know if you know of anyone who has rejected the kilt outright after giving it a fair try.

[Bugbear]

I completely agree that we all may feel that there are some times when trousers are preferable to the kilt. I am interested to know if you know of anyone who has rejected the kilt outright after giving it a fair try.

Yes, Mikilt, I have stopped wearing the kilt, and that was after a few years. I have also let go of tartan; that one was painful.

It is not a point of view I wish to tell everyone else they should have; please don't take it that way.

[Mikilt]

Yes, Mikilt, I have stopped wearing the kilt, and that was after a few years. I have also let go of tartan; that one was painful.

It is not a point of view I wish to tell everyone else they should have; please don't take it that way.

I understand, sir.

[Nighthawk]

I completely agree that we all may feel that there are some times when trousers are preferable to the kilt. I am interested to know if you know of anyone who has rejected the kilt outright after giving it a fair try.

Fair try? No. My brother wore a kilt for my wedding- grudgingly. He has refused to ever wear one again. That's the closest I've come to someone trying it and outright not liking. My best friend, on the other hand, loves his Anderson tartan kilt.

[Oddern]

A friend of mine tried the kilt once and kindly said, no thanks never again. This was in the autum, outside, a bit cold, and he has a condition with his legs where he is very sensetive to cold weather. Not a good match.
Skål!

[piperdbh]

Yes, Mikilt, I have stopped wearing the kilt, and that was after a few years. I have also let go of tartan; that one was painful.

That's too bad, Ted. I often think of you in the hot sunshine harvesting whatever's in season, wearing a kilt, Argyll jacket and wool tie, quietly muttering to yourself about which side of the ponderosa needs more compost.