How old were you when you first wore a kilt?

[Standard]

I got my first kilt when I was 42. I'd been wanting one for quite a while to honour my Scottish ancestors. That was 2 years ago. I now have 2 kilts and have sent tartan to Barb Tewksbury for a third. My only regret is in not having taken up the kilt years ago when I first began thinking of getting one.

[Smayniac]

(this will stop eventually right?)

Don't count on it...

I got my first kilt for Christmas when I was around 35 or so, I don't remember exactly, but it was pre-Scooby. At first I just wore it (SK, hunting Stewart, gathered) around the house; then walking the dog. One hot July evening, I wore it on a moonlight canoe paddle. Shortly after I got two more SportKilts of the newer and better made variety.

I started looking at instructions for making my own ten years ago or so, but it took joining the forum and finding Alan's XKilt instructions for me to actually do it. I think I need to revise my kilt count, but there's no looking back.

Bob

[Geoff Withnell]

I was 10 or 11 It would have been a costume "kilt"

four years ago I thought I'd make a "proper" kilt and looked for instructions online. I made the equivalent of a 5 yard casual kilt in a cotton tartan (Black Watch) I spent too many hours pressing it (before every time I wore it...) I decided that was it and went out and bought some wool.

I made a nice 6 yarder with a solid green fabric and wore that up until a few months ago.

I now have a few modern styled kilts and a PV 8 yarder in the Maple leaf Tartan and a 4 yard box pleat in Black Watch. Beyond that there's some Gordon regimental fabric waiting and some Isle of Skye on order... (this will stop eventually right?)

Of course it will stop eventually! You don't think you are immortal, do you?


I was 58 when I wore a belted plaid at a ren fair, loved it, found this place, found SWK thrifties, and expect to be wearing kilts till they bury me.
Geoff Withnell

[David Dubh]

I was probably about 4 or 5 my granny sent me one. I was 11 when I got my next one

[KiltedDawg]

Twenty years ago as a first year student at St. Andrews. I hired an outfit for the rugby club formal, which turned out to be an Anderson tartan, and never looked back. I ordered a family tartan soon thereafter.

[St. Amish]

I HAD a kilt when I was younger. i think I wore it once to school for a "roots" project. Don't know where it ended up. Lost somewhere during many moves.

My first adult kilt experience came a few (or five) years ago when I took my 5 year old son to the Scottish gathering and games in Pleasanton. He had never seen a kilt before, and immediately asked, "What's that?" I explained, and his next question was, "Where's mine?" I couldn't have my son looking sharper than his old man, so I ended up buying two kilts that day.

[Chainsaw02]

After attending the Stone Muntain Highland Games in 2001 and meeting my clan chief for the first time I just had to be kilted like everone else. So I ordered a Sportkilt (all I could afford at the time) in a "tablecloth tartan", began wearing it arnd never looked back. I make my own "tanks" and now have three of those plus numerious others. Oh, I was 60 years old in 2002.

Larry Dir

[morrison]

I'm not old yet!

[cormacmacguardhe]

I believe I was either 59 or 60 when I bought my first kilt, it was a sportkilt. I just decided that it was time to honor my highland ancestry.

[Oddern]

I was 42. Two years ago as a funny stunt at a company outing. Has been hooked ever since.