Any suggestions for wearing a kilt in public for the first time?

[estimaa]

Honestly, if you're just extremely worried about what other people will think of you in your kilt...

....The thing is just a piece of clothing.

Couldn't agree more with this..
The fact is,- the kilt is still (rightly or wrongly) considered to be a sexual statement.
That can be great if you happen to like that, and if you understand that everything else, comfortable underwear, top and sandals are also just items of clothing.

I also found some absolutely beautiful hand made women's sandals (called unisex)with it, and they look simply july_2339.jpgstunning!

It is also for me a fashion statement.
If you are fighting a rearguard action against the bad back and a filthy dirty job where you get routinely showered in sh...t, then you have the right to wear just whatever you might like.

It can take you a lot closer to nature, and of course if you go to France, it will always be men who ask what is underneath.

(I usually reply "the complete central heating system and quite a lot of taps valves and hoses to go with it..."

[TecScot]

Wear it proudly. It's the most manly garment in western culture. When she asks what's worn under the kilt, It's her imagination.

[tundramanq]

Getting started takes balls. Just don't show them to anybody.

Almost got me padre! I had just sat down my ice tea.....

[tpa]

It can take you a lot closer to nature, and of course if you go to France, it will always be men who ask what is underneath.

I spent 10 days in France last year and nobody asked "the question". I only got 2 comments, one a compliment from an english female and the other from my host, who said he had always fancied a kilt, but felt the expense was not justified for the use it would get.

As for getting close to nature, that very much depends on the height of the undergrowth you are walking through and what you are or are not wearing underneath.

[estimaa]

As for getting close to nature, that very much depends on the height of the undergrowth you are walking through and what you are or are not wearing underneath.

I can't remember seeing much undergrowth when it's -25C and there's 3ft snow drifts everywhere...

[cajunrph]

I can't remember seeing much undergrowth when it's -25C and there's 3ft snow drifts everywhere...

There was probably shrinkage. Haha.

Good advice here for the novelist kilters among us. I haven't seen any around here. The RenFest has many. It's coming up in October.

[Alan H]

estimaa wrote: ".....The fact is,- the kilt is still (rightly or wrongly) considered to be a sexual statement. ..."

Huh?

Not sure I understand this.

[Father Bill]

Couldn't agree more with this..
The fact is,- the kilt is still (rightly or wrongly) considered to be a sexual statement.
That can be great if you happen to like that, and if you understand that everything else, comfortable underwear, top and sandals are also just items of clothing.

I also found some absolutely beautiful hand made women's sandals (called unisex)with it, and they look simply stunning!

It is also for me a fashion statement.
If you are fighting a rearguard action against the bad back and a filthy dirty job where you get routinely showered in sh...t, then you have the right to wear just whatever you might like.

It can take you a lot closer to nature, and of course if you go to France, it will always be men who ask what is underneath.

(I usually reply "the complete central heating system and quite a lot of taps valves and hoses to go with it..."

Please consider this an official shot across the bow. (Bold above is mine.)

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[estimaa]

estimaa wrote: ".....The fact is,- the kilt is still (rightly or wrongly) considered to be a sexual statement*. ..."
Huh?
Not sure I understand this.

Sigh!

Here goes:-

You most certainly WILL understand this, if you regularly travel in France (where you can be easily fined for not wearing a shirt in public).
I find this incredible & totally hypocritical, in what was one of the most avant garde countries in Europe.

DUH! It's just clothes!
It's got nothing to do with "cross dressing".

What goes on in other people's minds, you can't see and you can't change them.
(my words - "rightly or wrongly*") very much apply.

How they interpret your "liberty" to dress in one of the most beautiful, colourful garments in Europe, is often interpreted as sexually and socially provocative.
Even more so, if as an artist you have a personal culture of beauty and hygiene.

You will understand you are doing something extremely provocative if you sport a kilt in public in Russia today or even in some parts of ex USSR-Eastern Europe.
People have been arrested in Moscow for this.

I would say you have an even strong chance of being arrested in Minsk, but I don't have a visa for that country.

In winter DRAB, dark, miserable mono-colour, poor temperature controlled, group think culture is the norm.

You are seen as an exuberant, ANTI-conformist, in a country (countries) which is/are undergoing a radical backward transformation to a fully authoritarian state, -

(You can do 2 years prison for writing something as simple as disagreement with the annexation of a certain peninsula on the internet, or sing a song in a church...)

In one case, one local supermarket caissier (in EE) said, "you can't come here dressed like that, you will upset people".
This was by no means an isolated case, in a country divided on ethnic lines by language.

My reply runs (in Russian)"You as a country are in the EU, free to travel and to wear whatever you like.

You have no right to tell me what to do.
Go travel exactly 2500kms to the left on the world map at the same latitude, and you will see people (in Scotland), regularly walking around the streets like that".

Just saying.

[Taskr]

estimaa wrote: ".....The fact is,- the kilt is still (rightly or wrongly) considered to be a sexual statement. ..."

Huh?

Not sure I understand this.

There is a blog from Outlander cast member that raises this very point. I won't place the link due to one photo embedded in it that might not be considered appropriate to all audiences. (consider the kilt, by Dresbach)