Quote Originally Posted by ratspike View Post
This is actually a very good point. A while back I tried to get a monthly kilt night going. Portland being Portland, I thought it'd go over well and would be popular. Unfortunately it was a bit of a fail, due in part to this very thing. Getting dudes who liked to wear a kilt now and again, or were kilt-curious, to show up more than once was impossible. Too much Scottish dress-up was too much for the folks who weren't already kilt nerds. Even the guys who dress up as pirates couldn't hang, which is saying something.

This is in no way a dis on THCD. It's just an observation I made over a period of months while watching non-kilties in Portland, home of the Unipiper, the World Naked Bike Ride and countless other oddball things, try to interface with kilt enthusiasts.
I think it is like trying to get a cat to take a tablet Kilts are quite particular, I think it looks smart, but nerds, who are struggling to be like everyone else, may not embrace the kilt for fear of becoming 'weirder', so I could see why they may not want to kilt up. 'Kilt-curious', lol

Alan H, my wife isn't so bothered by the guys in the 'urban wear', perhaps it's the fact that other girls may dig the kilt, creating 'competition'... She has no umbrage toward my 30+ kilts I own already, though rolls her eyes at another purchase. The latest being a Glasgow Rangers tartan. I am of the 'if you like it, rock it' school of thought, and am weighing up wearing a kilt to a gathering tonight, but it is on the windy side and a little cold. I think it also depends on the right setting to be kilted, it's nice to be different, but wearing one in windy weather to 'make a a statement' won't endear people to it either.