baffled ... no change there lol

[benkilt]

Hi to all x markers, pour yourself a dram and listen to my tale of woe. I admit it, I have just spent the last 12 days unkilted This was in direct response to my wife's disgust at my wearing the noble kilt! I have been 'booted and suited' for 12 unhappy days She said, after many days and much cold shouldering, that I looked like her granny when I wore my latest kilt In all honesty it was a very purple tartan, 'Heritage of Scotland', and there's a totally different tale that goes with the purchase of it, so I binned it, and have decided that perhaps in the name of compromise, plain colours are more suited to me and my wife's eyes
But, last night I thought, ********!, and donned my plain black kilt, black hose, royal blue flashes, black boots,shirt and a waistcoat, and felt like a million dollars I'm sat here in pretty much the same garb tonight, and as for the disapproving glances from a certain person, I know that the kilt is as much a part of my life as breathing. So, any suggestions how to cheaply 'beef' up the outfit, as my missus thinks the only place a kilt should be seen is on the groom at a genuine Scottish wedding!

[Ozman1944]

Pity, but guess it's time to trade her in for a more appreciative model. Got to get your priorites right, after all said & done, right guys?
But at least you'll have your Kilt while you do the rounds of the single's bars, so you should do just fine...........

[Jock Scot]

It sounds as though you have a bit of a tricky problem there.How about suggesting that you are practicing for your holiday in Scotland and you really must get this kilt wearing job dead right.You know what sticklers we are for having things just right! Etc.,etc., etc.,etc..

[rollerboy_1979]

I have been a widower for slightly over a year, having lost the love of my life. I loved my old Rolls too, but my wife thought it was a money pit. I also loved to visit auto parts stores and smell the new tires (I'm weird), so as a compromise I would accompany her to the fabric store (ugh!). She loved me dearly, and I her, so we both tolerated each other's ideosyncracies(sp?). Isn't that what love is, accepting your loved one for who he or she is? And a happy marriage should be a series of compromises. There's an old saying, "A happy wife means a happy life". I'm not so sure that's true because a husband who is miserable is bound to stray and really complicate matters. I hope that's not the case with you. I would venture to guess that there was something special about you that attracted your wife to you. Wearing a kilt is just another part of being the Renaissance man that you are. I'm sorry your wife doesn't recognize that. If all else fails, find something about her that makes you crazy and dwell on it fiercly......that may help to illustrate how badly she makes you feel about your kilt. Good luck.

[Packhound]

Perhaps she realizes that you are better dressed that she is.

[Perldog007]

Insensitivity Alert - Most of us have read many times about how a well made kilt can last for generations. Passed down from father to son and so on. Can't do that with a wife, leastways not in this here county. j/k - don't kill me

Seriously I understand Ben's predicament. My wife was dead square against it. The kilt that is. When I mentioned the cost of a nice custom modern kilt she was sold on me NEVER wearing one.

That's OK baby! I just want to be comfortable and not have those road scars on my bad leg get infected again. It doesn't have to be a kilt.... Men all over the world have alternatives to p*nts.

Check this out (_wraps_self_in_bedsheet_) a sarong!!! for free!!!. Bought some homespun checkered cotton and sewed it into tubes BINGO - indonesian sarongs. Did same with digi-camo that one was a so-wrong.

She still wasn't sold on kilts. Time to go hardcore. the unspeakable men's garment we never discuss here. Thought she was going to expire, I honestly did. (my dead-head nephew will prolly wear that one, if he ever makes parole... yet I digress)

By the time my first kilt arrived I thought the mailman would need security to hold the screaming fans back. Brother must have thought he was mistaken for Bruce or something (Springstein, not Robert the...)

After that none-too gentle introduction to MUGs she was more than ready to see me in a kilt. Now she wakes up early most days just to see her man walk out the door.

It's all relative. In sales we call it the lamp and shade treatment. Make them squirm under the lamp then give them some shade. They love you for the shade.

[creativeaccents]

Don't know your age, economic situation, length of marriage...but a man's a man for all that! At some point in life we quit worrying what ANYONE else thinks or feels about the important things in life that allow us to become who we are and THEN the soul is set free to live. Esse Quam Videri..to BE rather than to seem. I spent a lifetime in blue pinstripe suits, the pursuit of more, and doing the right thing. NOW it's my turn. A life is a terrible thing to waste trying.

Hi to all x markers, pour yourself a dram and listen to my tale of woe. I admit it, I have just spent the last 12 days unkilted This was in direct response to my wife's disgust at my wearing the noble kilt! I have been 'booted and suited' for 12 unhappy days She said, after many days and much cold shouldering, that I looked like her granny when I wore my latest kilt In all honesty it was a very purple tartan, 'Heritage of Scotland', and there's a totally different tale that goes with the purchase of it, so I binned it, and have decided that perhaps in the name of compromise, plain colours are more suited to me and my wife's eyes
But, last night I thought, ********!, and donned my plain black kilt, black hose, royal blue flashes, black boots,shirt and a waistcoat, and felt like a million dollars I'm sat here in pretty much the same garb tonight, and as for the disapproving glances from a certain person, I know that the kilt is as much a part of my life as breathing. So, any suggestions how to cheaply 'beef' up the outfit, as my missus thinks the only place a kilt should be seen is on the groom at a genuine Scottish wedding!

[Packhound]

. So, any suggestions how to cheaply 'beef' up the outfit, as my missus thinks the only place a kilt should be seen is on the groom at a genuine Scottish wedding!

In spite of my previous comment, my wife is still having to get used to my "newest interest." She is aware that being kilted can be "cost prohibitive". But I tend toward being a DIY'er with many things and figure to get her used to the idea by approaching the subject as a study of the "mechanics". In other words, I am making my own kit (as much as "I" possibly can) on the "cheap".
Later I'll order a custom from some of the great artisans here.

You already have the kilt(s). So dress it up with a jacket. There are several threads by David Dalglish on modifying a jacket from a thrift store. (I recently bought two for a total of $7.00 USD). Here are the links:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=19628

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=22180

And you can & probably should do these by hand. (No machines required.)

[cessna152towser]

I bet she wears a few things that you think don't suit her. Maybe its time to tell her and see how she feels. Above all though, you as individuals are each entitled to wear what makes you feel good, without censor from the other half of the relationship.

[Joe Gondek]

Don't know your age, economic situation, length of marriage

This would help alot in giving advice
My wife is not real keen on me wearing a kilt everywhere, but after being together for 36 years, through historical reeactments and rendezvous
she has learned to accept what I do and go along with it. There has to be a lot of give and take and acceptance in a marriage on both parts.