Big scarey kilt

**Phil Wright** · 2nd September 05, 07:16 AM

OK, so I've heard and experienced the 'power of the kilt' on the female population but...
I called in on my Father in Law for a while recently whilst kilted. His neighbour's kids play on an adjoining lawn at the front of his house. As I left the house, one of the children, about 8 years old, took one look and ran hiding into the house. As she peered in disbelief from round the door jamb we had to take time to explain that it was a kilt and that men wear them with the rest of the kit.
I know the North-East maintains a hard image, and I probably would not feel quite so at ease walking kilted in Newcastle, but for an 8 year old kid to be scared of a man in a kilt???? What is really sad is that she has got to that age, an hour from the Scottish borders, and she had never seen one before!
You've seen the pics... I may be no oil painting but I'm hardly the woaded warrior either!! Anyone else harried the local population?
Phil

**Riverkilt** · 2nd September 05, 07:34 AM

Perhaps the knees rather than the kilt ?? ;-)

Have had the same thing happen, only more understandable...when I go kilted to Colorado City, Arizona - a polygamist enclave - where they still wear old west pioneer clothes and the females of all ages wear jeans under their ankle length dresses.

For them, a long haired, bearded, tattooed old guy in a tank top, kilt, and sandals is a combination of blastphemy and the devil incarnate. Have scattered a dozen polygamist kids across a field like chickens fleeing a fox.

And, pleas of, "Its all right" just don't cut any slack with them.

Ron

**Colin** · 2nd September 05, 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by Phil Wright

OK, so I've heard and experienced the 'power of the kilt' on the female population but...
I called in on my Father in Law for a while recently whilst kilted. His neighbour's kids play on an adjoining lawn at the front of his house. As I left the house, one of the children, about 8 years old, took one look and ran hiding into the house. As she peered in disbelief from round the door jamb we had to take time to explain that it was a kilt and that men wear them with the rest of the kit.
I know the North-East maintains a hard image, and I probably would not feel quite so at ease walking kilted in Newcastle, but for an 8 year old kid to be scared of a man in a kilt???? What is really sad is that she has got to that age, an hour from the Scottish borders, and she had never seen one before!
You've seen the pics... I may be no oil painting but I'm hardly the woaded warrior either!! Anyone else harried the local population?
Phil

Maybe they thought the Scots were coming again to finish what they started in the '45

or maybe it was the knees......