Kilt Culture

[Riverkilt]

Hey String, hope you're feeling better by now.

I'm weird...have been around things Scottish all my life, highland games, pipers, my grandfather Murdoch's stories, and books of tartans. But, I never once considered a kilt for "myself" until I was at a Ren Faire and saw a guy in a Utilikilt. No clue why, I just had to have one. Looked them up on the Net and ordered. So I guess it was "Scottish Jeans" that did the trick for me. Go figure...now I like tartan kilts...lots of them!

Being a single old geezer living in a bear cave and between women when I took up with kilts there wasn't an issue with a significant other. The usual mixed reactions from the rest of the world. My current lady has only known me as a kiltie and she's obviously okay with it but says she likes my "butt" better in pants....talk about make an olde guy proud...but that's not enough to forsake the freedom and comfort of klts.

I used to be a shy kid...somewhere along the line working in the mines, the USMC, law enforcement, corporate sales, and lots of booze took care of that. Now, I really don't care what others think of me. I wanna live my life the way I want to in the years left. We're a long time dead and I enjoy enjoying life. Kilts help me do that.

And for me its pure joy how kilts cut across culture and the generations.

I only wish I'd discovered kilts before going back to college...those classes would have been soooo much more comfortable to sit through. Nine years of sitting at night to finish the BA and Masters.

Ron