"Crazy" Things

**Big Dave** · 4th March 06, 11:04 PM

People think I'm crazy anyway, so me wearing Cilts comes across as normal.

**Andrew Breecher** · 5th March 06, 12:22 AM

Well, I've done all sorts of crazy things, and I've just happened to have been wearing a kilt for some of them.

I swang on a rope swing into a pond...in front of a bunch of kids...and my kilt few up. They all cheered. There's no photo of it - my friend took video instead. Here I am about to jump, with my friend in the air before me.

Otherwise, I've been swimming, snowshoeing, cliff diving, and of course long-distance hiking in a kilt.

Andrew.

**Freelander Sporrano** · 5th March 06, 02:55 AM

The trampoline in the back garden is always a no go area for me while kilted :rolleyes:

**646guy** · 5th March 06, 07:44 AM

I was a bar that had two stories a couple of weeks ago for my rugby team's monthly bar night. The event organizer called me over and we started talking for a while until we coudl hear the buzz from below starting to build and that's when we realized that everyone had gathered at the foot of the balcony trying to figure out what I really had going on underneath the kilt....

....and it was 18 degrees outside

**mudd** · 5th March 06, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by Andrew Breecher

Otherwise, I've been swimming, snowshoeing, cliff diving, and of course long-distance hiking in a kilt.

Man, you’re rough on your kilts.

**longshadows** · 5th March 06, 10:43 AM

As I walked across the university campus to work, with the temps this past week almost down to 0 degrees F (-18 or degrees C), I did get a few strange looks, but it seemed only from women. Maybe they knew how it would have felt, had they been wearing a skirt. Regardless, it didn't feel uncomfortable to me, since I had on long wool socks.

**UmAnOnion** · 5th March 06, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by Andrew Breecher

...Otherwise, I've been swimming, snowshoeing, cliff diving, and of course long-distance hiking in a kilt.

Andrew.

Wouldnt your kilt get rather heavy while swimming??? to have all that fabric swirling around your legs, soaking wet, it would weigh a ton & drag you down a bit, i would think....

**Andrew Breecher** · 5th March 06, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by UmAnOnion

Wouldnt your kilt get rather heavy while swimming??? to have all that fabric swirling around your legs, soaking wet, it would weigh a ton & drag you down a bit, i would think....

True, but it was either that or skinny-dip at a public beach with lots of kids around. It was hot, and I wanted to swim!

Andrew.

**646guy** · 5th March 06, 03:21 PM

Geez.....these are kilts! Not disposal KLeenex Andrew! How did the water affect the kilt after swimming?

**Andrew Breecher** · 5th March 06, 11:26 PM

Originally Posted by 646guy

Geez.....these are kilts! Not disposal KLeenex Andrew! How did the water affect the kilt after swimming?

It was a poly-viscose Bear kilt. It dried within two hours of me wearing it after getting out of the water, pleats intact. Same as after I jumped off the rope swing. Same as when I wore it backpacking over thirty miles through a snowstorm. Same as when I wore it backpacking through seven straight days of torrential rain. Same as when I forded three waist-deep rivers a day for a week in it.

I treat my kilts like clothes. They're tough garments, and I'm tough on them. They keep coming back for more. I was always inspired by Bear's slogan: "Kilts are clothing, not costumes!" Why should I treat them like porcelain kittens? They were designed to be worn in the rough Highlands: slept in, rained on, building houses in, tending farms in.... My goal is to put 8,000 backpacking miles on one of my Bear kilts, and I have no doubt it will pull through - I can't think of many other articles of clothing that would take such abuse!

Andrew.