Are we...

[Graham]

and yet....how often have you heard the comment "Oh I like something around my legs" (referring to trousers)?
I heard that yesterday, there is this preception that a draft aroud the legs has to be cold.

Well that may be true, but it's amazing how quickly the legs become climatised, I think Bear said something about that a while ago.

I climatised my legs wearing shorts only for a year, then to go to a kilt was no big deal with the cold, but quite a bit more freedom.

[philbo]

I agree, Graham. I just returned from a ball game, and it was a rather chilly and windy day in Bozeman. Sure, I was a bit cold, but so was everybody else watching the game. The important parts of my body were still comfortable. When a lady asked if I felt cold, I corrected her by saying that I felt "refreshed."

[GMan]

Philbo,

I do like the refreshed comment, because I think we all agree that we are refreshed.

Glen

[al' Sporrano]

... I see kilts as normal wear and sometimes wonder whether this perception some have of kilt-wearing/kilt-wearers being somehow "different" is the principal obstacle nowadays to its wider use.

I would add that it is a fair portion of we kilt wearers that are laden with the self-appointed title of "different." Until each guy comes to fully believe that kilts are garments, not costumes, that it is just as normal to wear kilts as pants, then that guy is not going to be confident in kilts.

I wrote "Kilts are garments, not costumes!" for my web site just over a year ago. I'm still learning things about that simple phrase.

Bear

I agree with you totally that the kilt should be like any other item of men's clothing and be accepted as such. Unfortunately over in the UK the job is harder. The kilt will always be seen as a National costume because that is traditionally what it is.

Outside of special occasions, even in Scotland, the kilt is rarely worn routinely. Robbie himself admits that. The tourist shops are full of costumed dolls, all wearing kilts. Pipers stand busking on street corners. Pipe bands parade in full regalia.

Folks like Howie Nicholsby are doing there bit to promote the kilt outside of these areas but it will take a while.

At least in the US you can distance yourself from the costume element.

Keep up the good work.

Regards

Al

[bubba]

Refreshed. I like that. My response is "How could I be cold wrapped in 8 yards of wool".

[Casey]

I have found that there is more climate control in a kilt.

Casey

[Blu (Ontario)]

WoW!! How about thunder & lightning??

[Casey]

Blu,

The thunder is no problem. But the lightning........

Casey

[The Kilted Chef]

Blu,

The thunder is no problem.

Casey

Have you been eating haggis again?

[Casey]

Is there vegetarian haggis?

Casey