Wife does not like me in a kilt

[triumph]

CDNSushi; I do have a set of bagpipes, very much an amateur. I have also done my family genealogy from Scotland. This Kilting is something I guess will just take time and I hope she will come around. As to going someplace local where kilts are worn, there just is not any place close within a 100 miles. Thank you all for your words of wisdom

[The Wizard of BC]

f150k,

You have received quite a few responses. Some tongue in cheek, some sincere and some bordering on rude and intrusive.

But I was talking to my wife about this. She is a very smart women. Her comment to me was that from a woman's standpoint it may not be that she does not like you in a kilt.
It may be that she is feeling protective and does not want others to think bad of you. She may be afraid of what others may say or think so gives you the impression that it is her disapproving.

As some others have said. If it is possible, find a place where there are others in kilts. Once she sees that you are not the only one she may relax the "protect him from harm" attitude.

But in the end this really is something you need to talk to her about. I'm afraid that an on-line forum will just make matters worse. Forums don't make good "Dear Abby's" as you can see from some of the replies.

[Bill aka Mole]

I've only been wearing kilts for the last 8 months, and not full time. If you'd like to see what a dork looks like in a kilt, please ensure that those who may have a weak stomach do not look and that you remove all food and beverage from your computer area before you look here: Dork in kilt.

I'll be here all week, try the veal! Cheers!

[BroosterB1]

Hummm....maybe a new thread "Dork in Kilt" Pics I'm sure a have a few that qualify.

as to the OP, maybe your wife is just boring? Boring folk do not suffer us dorks well. Embrace the inner dork... least you are not wearing a pocket protector or your Ed Hardy jeans around your knees....

[The Thirsty Viking]

Hummm....maybe a new thread "Dork in Kilt" Pics Embrace the inner dork.

Taken the scientific sense... the above sentence is a bit alarming...

[Spartan Tartan]

Taken the scientific sense... the above sentence is a bit alarming...

Ahhh yes...no one wants to see a humpback wale kilted as might be suggested...

[Mike_Oettle]

Dork in a kilt? No way. Bill wears it well.
I would second the advice to wear different hose (plenty of threads that mention white or off-white hose).
But dropping the bonnet is not necessarily a good suggestion.
I have been wearing a bonnet (when outdoors) fulltime for the past nine months, after taking delivery of one from Scotweb (and receiving another as a gift from an X Marker).
But my circumstances are somewhat different from those of the OP.
When I met my wife (again, since we had been classmates in junior school) I was already a member of a kilted regiment. I occasionally wore my kilt around the flat (apartment), and (especially in cold weather) wore my khaki army tammie.
I was seriously interested in buying a kilt when I handed in my regimental one, but the prices quoted to me were quite alarming, and I dropped the idea for the next three decades (and nearly a half).
When I took up a fresh interest in tartans and kilts last year, I already had a sizeable collection of books on tartan.
I had kept my army tammie on leaving the regiment (it was threadbare, having been worn constantly from the time it was made in 1942), and have worn it at home whenever the weather was cold.
(Without some head cover, I develop a painful neuralgia in cold weather.)
Having ordered and taken delivery of my new tammie, I felt obliged to wear it on every occasion to justify the expense of its acquisition.
So despite my wife’s very English disparagement of the kilt, she acceded to my expressed interest in acquiring one (although she made me wait until the end of last year).
My advice to f150k is to persevere in wearing the kilt, especially around the house, but also on appropriate occasions out of the home.
Give your wife time to get used to the idea, and expose her to information of the kind that is plentiful at X Marks.
I would be interested to hear in, say, six months’ time, what her opinion is.
Regards,
Mike