Quote Originally Posted by James
My own approach is that to wear or not to wear the kilt should be no more of a decision than which shirt to wear...Choice only coming into it when there is some particular activity, which directs me to one way of dressing or another...My thinking being that then kilt should be regarded and worn as a normal day to day garment, and there are no points to be gained from wearing it or not wearing it on any particular occasion: the mood of the moment being the deciding factor.

James
Obviously, James, there are many of us who do in fact wear pants on occasion, but that's not the focus of this forum. Most of us don't have the experience that you did of growing up with the kilt. For us this is a life changing experience. Like many life changing experiences we sometimes go further than prudence would dictate. Sometimes in our zeal to embrace the new possibility of the kilt we try to do things kilted that would be easier or more practical in pants. That's how we compress a lifetime of kilt wearing experience into a short period of our lives, and this forum is a way for us to comunicate what works and what doesn't with each other. Sharing this voyage of discovery with each other is, in part, why this forum has blossomed the way it has.

We do, in fact, want the wearing of kilts to be regarded as a normal day to day garment. We'd like it to be the normal day to day garment of a special class of men (which of course includes each of us on this forum). I don't think we're looking to score points, but each of us has some part in the back of our mind that wants to be exemplary. The bravado that it takes to dress in a new way, a way different than most of the people around us, in the kilt, feeds that.

It's not that we don't wear pants on occasion, it's just that we're not captivated by the mundane act of wearing pants like we are in the exotic experience of wearing the kilt.

Jamie