Quote Originally Posted by Chris Webb
Great posts!

Speaking only for myself I think I had to develop a really solid sense of personal confidence before I started wearing kilts. All the reasons mentioned for not wearing kilts most certainly applied to me.

Before kilts become mainstream I think that 'man' kind will have to address the issue of declining personal confidence. We are just fancy animals, mammals to be exact.

Every time I approach my dad's dog he comes up to me with his tail between his legs ... for reasons unknown he just lacks the confidence to come up to me, head high and tail wagging.

A dogs tail is like a man's trousers ... in a difficult world with increasing tensions more and more men, fancy mammals all of them, are inclined to cover themselves with trousers, just like a frightened dog covers his genitals with his tail.

Kilts are awesome. Kilts make sense in an anatomical way. Kilts, when worn, shout confidence. So to increase the number of men wearing kilts, to get them into mainstream society, it will be necessary not so much to eliminate the reasons they are not worn, but to increase the one single reason they are ever worn ... personal confidence.

Of course, I really could be wrong. I only know that it was personal confidence that finally got me past all the doubts and detractors.

Kilt On.

Chris Webb
Chris,

I'm sorry, but I can't agree with you here. I don't think that wearing trousers makes someone a "whipped curr dog", as you are implying -- there are many of us here who do not wear kilts full-time, yet that doesn't make us somehow "less confident" than those who do. I feel just as confident in a pair of grey flannels and a blue blazer as I do in my kilt.

Regards,

Todd