Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
" In my experience in the Highlands the kilt is male territory and females if they dare, including brides to be, tread very carefully should they venture there."

I wrote this in another thread yesterday and I quote it here as it illustrates a very different thought process in much of Scotland. Now a large part of this comes from "I am a Scot and I am a "MacOnion", so I wear the "MacOnion" kilt if I want to." Any female Scot has grown up with that and "Her Man" is what he is, he wears the kilt if he wants to and he wears HIS tartan and that is that.

I read the posts on this thread with absolute dismay that the kilt should cause such division and not a little upset in the home, but frankly that is what happens when you wear a garment ---the kilt---outwith its natural surroundings. How you get round it I really don't know, but it is plain to see that compromise is the best course.

My ex-wife had no qualms about me wearing the kilt as often as I wanted but I have some friends whom I run about with and during the summer, I like being kilted a lot and generally this is accepted well but I have just been talking to Cessna152Towser who has asked me if I will be going to the Old Vintage Bus Parade in Glasgow next month, I met him there last year and he was kilted, I was not. He asked me if I will be kilted at the event this year, I have told him as this is not a particular Scottish event, my friends would expect me not to be kilted and they would think I was daft wearing a kilt on that day. It is an attitude that even in Scotland we have ''Why are you wearing a kilt'
Sometimes on the occasional Friday night out at a pub in the west of Glasgow, I have randomly been kilted and still you get many questions from many people on why you are kilted.