Halloween Bifurcated??

[Kilted Taper]

I'm using today as a good way to introduce the kilt to the office. Probably won't win anybody over, but at least there is one day a year that I can do it with out issue (2 if you count national tartan day, but this will be my first one kilted, so we shall see).

[cavscout]

I had the same concerns. I'm threading a needle here but I strapped on my PK Marpat with my old OD jungle boots and OD Wooly pully and waded in.

[NancyMan]

While I agree with Bear that my kilts are garments first and foremost, I have another perspective as well...

When the great 20th century composer Frank Zappa died in the mid nineties, I found myself listening to a local radio station's tribute to him- a broadcast of one of his concerts including all the between songs patter. During one such break you could clearly hear an off stage fan say in a dripping-with-sarcasm voice, "Nice costume, Frank!" Without missing a beat Frank shot back, "Don't kid yourself, WE'RE ALL WEARING COSTUMES HERE TONITE." For some time after, this became my byline. Everywhere I went, I saw people in costumes. Every one of them. Jeans and a T-shirt? Hey, nice costume man!

Today marks the three month anniversary of my giving up trousers. (Well, I still work in trousers, but I wouldn't do to a kilt what I do to my work pants, which is to get them filthy every day.) Last night at my usual Sunday evening haunt, a neighbourhood bistro I wore my usual garment: a kilt. Was it a costume? You bet! Two tone brogues, argyle socks, a Black Stewart Sportkilt, an argyle vest over a Dress Stewart shirt and I topped it off with a Royal Stewart bonnet. If anyone asked, I said I was a fractured movie title, "The Clash of the Tartans!"

[auld argonian]

...which brings to mind a "costume" item that I've been referencing to those of my friends who are - let's say skeptical - about wearing kilts...and that would be: those Zoobaz pants that were all the rage a several years ago...not a pair of those would make a great halloween costume except that around here THERE ARE STILL GUYS WEARING THEM! You wouldn't look like you were in costume...you would fit right in!

To the kilt-skeptics I say, "Look...no matter what reservations you might have about kilts, would it look any more "normal" if I was parading around in a pair of those Zoobaz pants?" Case closed.

So I'm torn as to whether or not to throw the kilt on today (Oct 31) or not...I'd hate for anyone to think I was "in costume".

...and I wonder if there's a forum out there for the Zoobaz guys...you know, sharing Zoobaz tips and reviewing Zoobaz manufacturers...maybe trying to sew their own Zoobaz....it is damn frightening, isn't it?

Happy Halloween!

best

AA

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

I'm using today as a good way to introduce the kilt to the office. Probably won't win anybody over, but at least there is one day a year that I can do it with out issue (2 if you count national tartan day, but this will be my first one kilted, so we shall see).

KT, good luck! I have found people at my work very supportive (in public!) of wearing the kilt. It has progressed to the point that now people are comfortabl enough to joke with me about it. At first nobody was sure what to say to me, so there were many "water cooler" conversations going on that I only got to hear about third hand. Nothing bad, just messed with some people's heads a (mis)conceptions!