Questions for the full time people.

**Raphael** · 30th April 08, 07:34 AM

Knowing many of you are kilted full time, and I have some questions about this life style.

- Is this a life style choice?
- Do you give up a hobby, if it requires to wear pants? Or do you try to adopt the kilt into a hobby?
- Are you doing it for attention?

**James MacMillan** · 30th April 08, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by Raphael

Knowing many of you are kilted full time, and I have some questions about this life style.

- Is this a life style choice?
- Do you give up a hobby, if it requires to wear pants? Or do you try to adopt the kilt into a hobby?
- Are you doing it for attention?

- Is this a life style choice? I'm not sure what you mean, as to a life style choice. I haven't changed anything that I do, except that I stopped wearing pants! No life style choice at all - except I now live more comfortably than before!

- Do you give up a hobby, if it requires to wear pants? Or do you try to adopt the kilt into a hobby? I don't know of any hobby which would require the wearing of pants! Could you name a few hobbies that require wearing pants?

- Are you doing it for attention? That one is easy - NO! I wear the kilt because it is the most comfortable mode of dress in the world (In my ever so humble opinion!) Am I shy or ashamed of the kilt? Again - NO! Do I need any attention? Again - No! I just wear the kilt!

**Ayin McFye** · 30th April 08, 08:23 AM

Originally Posted by James MacMillan

- Is this a life style choice? I'm not sure what you mean, as to a life style choice. I haven't changed anything that I do, except that I stopped wearing pants! No life style choice at all - except I now live more comfortably than before!

- Do you give up a hobby, if it requires to wear pants? Or do you try to adopt the kilt into a hobby? I don't know of any hobby which would require the wearing of pants! Could you name a few hobbies that require wearing pants?

- Are you doing it for attention? That one is easy - NO! I wear the kilt because it is the most comfortable mode of dress in the world (In my ever so humble opinion!) Am I shy or ashamed of the kilt? Again - NO! Do I need any attention? Again - No! I just wear the kilt!

Well I'm not a 100% full time kilt wearer, but I'd say I'm about a 75% when possible. (I can't wear it to work and stuff like that)

1) Is this a lifestyle choice? I also don't entirely know what you mean by this. Nothing about my style of living changed other than the kilt.

2) Do you give up a hobby if it requires you to wear pants? I don't "Ban" hobbies that require pants just because pants are the norm. I know you "can" go rock climbing in a kilt, but it would probably be suggested to wear something underneath. My brother plays on an adult kickball league and I would wear my kilt out there too, but not regimental. Too many children around. But back to your question, if I had to wear pants to do a hobby, then I'd wear pants. I wouldn't not do something that I wanted to do, just because a kilt isn't practicle or allowed.

3) Are you doing it for the attention? No, I am not doing it for the attention, BUT i do enjoy the attention. I wear the kilt for countless reason, the attention is just a bonus.

**Yaish** · 30th April 08, 08:33 AM

Full time other than work, which sort of answers one question right there.

Is it a lifestyle choice? Sure, in the same way that eating vegetables with every meal is a lifestyle choice. It's something I choose to do, but I do so because I like the comfort, the style, and the historical connection (even with modern kilts)

Did I give up any hobbies that require pants? Well I never had any hobbies that required pants. I've done some things in a kilt that others thought crazy (skiing, snowboarding, paintball) but to be honest my biggest hobby REQUIRES kilts (Highland Games).
If I need to wear pants, I wear pants. It's a non-issue.

Do I do it for the attention? I honestly don't notice much attention. I get some, and some of that I would just as happily do without as I generally don't like talking to people if I have the choice. Sometimes though the kilt has opened doors or been an icebreaker that led to meeting some nice people and having some wonderful conversations.

**JS Sanders** · 30th April 08, 08:46 AM

My livelihood is that of a piper. So by definition, a kilt is wrapped around me throughout the week. I cannot recall the last occasion when I was kilted and pipe-less.

Piping is a vocation, and to a lesser degree an avocation, so difficult to ascertain how much I attribute to being a hobby. I do enjoy kilt nights, so there must at least a modicum of it.

It's difficult to distinguish the attention received from being kilted or being the piper. Admittedly, the majority of the time I have no objections to the attention brought.

During my "off-time" though, bifurcators are the norm and I have more of those than kilts.

How 'bout re-phrasing your inquiry a bit and perhaps we can provide answers more in line with your question?

Slainte,
steve

**Rex_Tremende** · 30th April 08, 03:46 PM

Originally Posted by Yaish

Is it a lifestyle choice? Sure, in the same way that eating vegetables with every meal is a lifestyle choice.

Great retort. I think it's so lame the way we label behaviors that seem unusual (meaning "not what I do") as a life style choice, as though our own set of behaviors were not a life style or a choice. Unless one has never even considered wearing trousers, of course it's a choice AND the way one styles his life! Let's understand the underlying motivations for- assumptions about the question, otherwise it's meaningless inquiry.

So, Raphael, why do you ask?

Regards,
Rex.

**Raphael** · 30th April 08, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by Rex_Tremende

So, Raphael, why do you ask?

Regards,
Rex.

I ask because I want to know.

**threebanger** · 30th April 08, 10:13 AM

Originally Posted by James MacMillan

I don't know of any hobby which would require the wearing of pants! Could you name a few hobbies that require wearing pants?

Motorcycling...
But then I think that's a lifestyle choice, not a hobby!

**McMurdo** · 30th April 08, 10:23 AM

I've been kilted full time for a little over a year, that said there are some things I would not do kilted, like motorcycling as has been brought up already, I guess a few more would be water skiing or sky diving, my motorcycle has not been running right for the past year or more, it's got to the point where I have to decide to buy a new one or not. When I get a new motorcycle I will not ride kilted, it just will not happen. So on to the questions

- Is this a life style choice?
No it's what I chose to wear

- Do you give up a hobby, if it requires to wear pants? Or do you try to adopt the kilt into a hobby?
If the hobby requires pants, then the hobby requires pants end of story.

- Are you doing it for attention?
No I started wearing the kilt as it is part of my heritage, and besides a lot of the attention given is the unwanted kind, so no I am not doing it for the attention I'm doing it for me.

**Ancienne Alliance** · 30th April 08, 10:56 AM

- Is this a life style choice?
The way my sweet wife glanced at me when I took the decision to go back to wearing kilts, it was obvious there would never again be a possibility for choosing in my life. *sob*

- Do you give up a hobby, if it requires to wear pants? Or do you try to adopt the kilt into a hobby?
All my hobbies seemed bizarre before. Now they revealed themselves as obvious !

- Are you doing it for attention?
I would say it's rather to divert the attention from me to the kilt.