Kilted in the mall

[Alan]

The other day I was at the mall to get pictures made of my family. I was wearing my traditional kilt in the Macleod tartan. While waiting to get the proofs of the pictures we walked through the different stores doing some Christmas shopping. After a few minutes in a store I noticed a family following me around. I guess I was a novelty because this family just wanted to show their daughter a man in a kilt. They were very nice about it and even said how good it looked. Other comments while walking through the mall were varied. One guy came up to me an said how much he liked the kilt and wished that he had the guts to wear one. Of course one of the comments from the younger crowed was "who does he think he is, braveheard. I just ignored them. I did get a lot of people staring but all in all the comments were mostly good. Interesting night though.

[Ranald]

The other day I was at the mall to get pictures made of my family. I was wearing my traditional kilt in the Macleod tartan. While waiting to get the proofs of the pictures we walked through the different stores doing some Christmas shopping. After a few minutes in a store I noticed a family following me around. I guess I was a novelty because this family just wanted to show their daughter a man in a kilt. They were very nice about it and even said how good it looked. Other comments while walking through the mall were varied. One guy came up to me an said how much he liked the kilt and wished that he had the guts to wear one. Of course one of the comments from the younger crowed was "who does he think he is, braveheard. I just ignored them. I did get a lot of people staring but all in all the comments were mostly good. Interesting night though.

It's funny you say that, I was out with the family last weekend, went to Aberdeen (Bon Accord Centre) shopping mall. The reaction was startling, you'd have thought they had never seen a guy in a kilt before, it was like the parting of the waves.Well actually I felt like a film star.
No-one though came and asked anything or offered any comments.
I feel sometimes though that the best thing to keep in mind is 'who cares what everybody else thinks'.

[Graham]

Ranald, that still amazes me, being in Scotland. How are you regarded do you think? an oddball? a tourist?
Would that Scotland could embrace it's own National garment with greater enthusiasm!!

Snipe, I was in town today, all I got was giggles from teenagers. well done for stepping out kilted!

[Alan]

I'm ole enough not to care what everyone else thinks. Wearing a kilt is comfortable. I will also be wearing it next weekend to my wife's company Christmas party. I know that I will be the only one kilted there. It should be fun.

[Freedomlover]

I'm ole enough not to care what everyone else thinks. Wearing a kilt is comfortable. I will also be wearing it next weekend to my wife's company Christmas party. I know that I will be the only one kilted there. It should be fun.

Hey Snipe481, would that be SS-481?

[GlassMan]

We went to a Japanese Steak House a couple of nights ago and at our table was an older couple from Florida. They liked the look of my kilt so much that before they left after dinner they had their picture taken with me.

Now the old lady is trying to convince her husband to get one because she says that he has nice looking legs!

[Alan]

Freedomlover, no, snipe is a slang work for a Hull Technician in the navy. If you look at a telephone key pad 481 would = HT1 which is my rate. I know its silly but no one has ever been able to figure it out.

[auld argonian]

Geez...the impending Holidays are one of the reasons that I am seriously jonesing for the Hunting Stewart USAK that I ordered: I figure that the colors will be very - how you say - holiday appropriate. Looking forward to finding many excuses to kilt out at upcoming holiday events...have the annual kids' Santa's Workshop coming up Saturday next and my buddy Bill and I will be doing the "your photo with the Jolly Old Elf" concession...it'd be a gas to be the kilted photographer for that one.

Going the the mall kilted? Do they figure that you're one of Santa's Helpers? A film extra? ("Look, dear, a man in a kilt...he must be someone important.") I would hope that we'd be a good example to our fellow guys and that going kilted into the frosty blasts of winter would make them think, "Hey, this guy has got a great idea...I, too, wish to show that I laugh in the face of Old Man Winter! I shall prove to the world that I am a hearty type and get myself a kilt to wear through this festive and frigid season!" (I only hope that they don't start looking for the Kilt Store at the mall...)

I love hearing about the encounters that Xmarkser's have wherein some guy says that he thinks that the kilt wearer has "the balls" to wear it or that he (the unkilted) wishes that he had "the balls" to wear a kilt. Tell these guys that they already have the balls to wear a kilt...jeez, I don't think that it's that much different than wearing shorts (a damn site more comfortable and better looking, though)...so what's the big deal?

Peace on Earth, good kilts to men!

best

AA

[Alan]

one other thing I encountered was that the photographers in the mall shop does not have a clue how to photograph a men in a kilt. They tried to get me to pose for pictures with my family like I was wearing pants. That just didn't work. I guess next time I will have to educate them.

[Mike n NC]

Freedomlover, no, snipe is a slang work for a Hull Technician in the navy. If you look at a telephone key pad 481 would = HT1 which is my rate. I know its silly but no one has ever been able to figure it out.

A t... chaser? lol, welcome aboard mate. Nice to have another Sailor anongst all these Marines. I was just a little further down the alphabet, HM(SS) retired in 91.

Mike