Controversial choice

**Crawdaddyjc** · 14th March 17, 06:56 PM

DrWilson- i like your outfit. tats as well!

i will wear out my black utikilt with a white punisher teeshirt with red/ and black socks that have little punisher skulls all over them. and then my big black boots.

very comfy and conversation starter!

**neo71665** · 15th March 17, 05:33 AM

Glad I'm not the only one against scrunched down socks. For me it's not really the look I just can't stand how it feels like my socks are coming off all the time.

If you like it then by all means go for it.

**tpa** · 15th March 17, 05:40 AM

My wife and I actively discouraged our children, when they were adolescents, from getting permanent tattoos and it only worked for one of them, who on occasion resorts to removable ones. However, they never have, but nowadays they could justifiably argue that wearing a kilt all the time is a lot more uncommon than tattoos, but at least I can take my kilt off with a lot less pain than tattoos.

At the end of the day, each to their own, it is a personal choice and whilst letting them know we were not in favour, we would never criticise them for doing so, as long as we are not expected to pay for them!

**Tasty Rabbit** · 12th April 17, 01:03 PM

I think Kilts & Doctor Who go together perfectly ! You could have fun & find some Dr. Who themed accessories like a kiltpin or belt buckle & so one - get a theme going .
As for the underlying tattoo theme going on here : What if you went to a job interview & the interviewer remembers seeing you in a kilt someplace before . They think that is just weird & a waste of money so they decide not to hire you . Is that ok ? No . So think next time you judge someone else . BTW I conduct interviews & I am tattooed .

**O'Callaghan** · 12th April 17, 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by Hirsty

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that tattoos are not acceptable in Scottish society, or that they are not acceptable to you, or something else entirely?

I think what Jock means is that many of the older generation (and by now I mean people my own age and older) don't like tatoos but would never say anything, because they would think it rude to do so.

**O'Callaghan** · 12th April 17, 01:59 PM

As for the shirt, I have watched Doctor Who since 1963, and when I think about it, I find it rather odd that I don't own a Doctor Who shirt. Perhaps I should get one?

I wear T-shirts habitually, always untucked, and with both kilts and jeans (though not both at the same time). I very rarely have anything formal to attend, and the office where I work specifies trousers as part of the male dress code.

**Nomad** · 12th April 17, 11:39 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

NO!

Remember that this is an international website and "pants" have a very different meaning in some parts of the world.

Haha, checking my pants and shirt work together has never entered my mind before now. That may change when I pick up my kilt today, but I think that black will go with everything 😄

**tripleblessed** · 18th April 17, 09:27 AM

Originally Posted by Stoff

On the question of kilt vs. trousers; my 1894 tailor's cutting manual on trousers includes the kilt. At that time tailors considered them to be pretty much the same sort of garment. So I agree with the comment to wear what ever you would with trousers with a kilt. The kilt is just another way to cover your neither regions.

Chrisoph

While I have spent a lot more than a few winters circling the sun, and have sustained and survived an enormous amount of trauma, I can
thankfully still say my regions are nether.

Not neither.

**Bamamedic** · 18th April 17, 10:49 AM

Originally Posted by Tasty Rabbit

What if you went to a job interview & the interviewer remembers seeing you in a kilt someplace before . They think that is just weird & a waste of money so they decide not to hire you . Is that ok ? .

Of course it'd be okay. Is it a criterion I would use? No, I'm too busy turning down tatted up freaks to pass over kilties. But by the same token, would I want to work for a person so hung up on trousers? Of course not.

Sounds like I dodged a bullet in your hypothetical!

**tpa** · 18th April 17, 12:55 PM

Originally Posted by Tasty Rabbit

What if you went to a job interview & the interviewer remembers seeing you in a kilt someplace before . They think that is just weird & a waste of money so they decide not to hire you . Is that ok ?

Can easily happen. I've worked somewhere where the HR Dept was known as the Mafia, but when the guy in charge of HR has a family tie to the Chairman, what can you expect? Never again.