Changing Attitudes of the kilt out and about

[Liam]

I for one do it all the time! If I reserved my kilts just for special occasions, they would rarely get worn. (Wearing the kilt makes every occasion special - even going shopping.)

[TheOfficialBren]

I wear my kilt when I want and don't when I don't want.

[Norbo]

Dood this me laugh so much. and you look very cool in your kilt mate.

[Nathan]

Whether we like it or not, wearing the kilt with no event or reasoning attached to it will never be perceived as "normal" behaviour in the conformist culture of the Anglophone world. It is, to be sure, an eccentricity. It would be the same as if you decided you were going to wear a top hat all the time or blouse your trousers. I have a friend who only wears Hawaiian shirts after work hours. It's his thing. If you enjoy being "that kilt guy" as your shtick and there are no professional consequences to such behaviour, by all means, embrace your brand.

Personally, I'm not comfortable being seen through such a narrow lens. I don't want to be just known as the guy who likes to wear kilts. I do like to wear kilts because I love my culture, but I'm much more than that.

My brother is a kilt maker, and he wore (wears?) a kilt full time for a long time. This was smart. Every time someone asked him about his kilt, he could plug his business.

For me, I don't derive the same benefit. I just get perceived as a weird guy who is starved for attention. That's not what I'm going for. It's a pity that it gets looked at like that, but there you have it.

Chacun à son goût, as they say...

[tundramanq]

The kilt is very slow to change style. Everything else is blindingly transient. Thank you marketers and designers! Your cash registers don't ring that often from me now.

Compactguy - Can't wait for the "prison buddy" look to die it's natural death.
As soon as guys learn where this look came from and what it's about, they stop doing it to themselves.

[enemix]

I don't have a tartan kilt (yet) but I wear my TDKs whenever I feel like it which is more and more often nowadays, especially during the warmer seasons. At work I have to switch to the company uniform but otherwise I wear a kilt more often than not.

It's not very common here but I have noticed that since one of our biggest newspapers ran a very good article about a kilted fellow a while ago the "weirdness factor" has gone down a bit

[Riverkilt]

Don't know if it means anything....I wear my kilts a lot in this rural/frontier area of the Canyonlands. Can't recall the last time I had anyone remark about a kilt when I was wearing one. From time to time someone will ask, "Where's your kilt?" when I'm not wearing one. Hoping its acceptance of kilts by the locals.

[tundramanq]

Ron, the Hopis and Navajos see past the surface. You respect their culture, so they respect ours. You are human!

[Riverkilt]

Good point. But I also live in a town of rednecks and people with dogmatic spiritual beliefs and tourists from around the World.

[tundramanq]

My attitude and I think yours, Like me and you like the whole package, wrapping and all. We come kilted most of the time.