Kilted at the Ballet

[Alan H]

The luminous Joan and I went to the San Jose Ballet the other night to see their production of "Carmina Burana"...music by Carl Orff. Now the piece of music is rather scandalous as it's mostly about eating and drinking and generally making merry and how "Fortuna"...which could be interpreted as a rather pagan view of Fate, "the goddess" and so on, makes the world go around. Yet much of the text was unearthed at a Monastery in the 1700's, I believe. It's something like that, anyway. Without getting into religion, the ballet was quite the spectacle.

ANY-way.

Whilst squeezing past a number of people to get to our seats, I got two "Nice Kilt" comments from younger guys...to which I simply responded "thank you". While Joan was in the ladies room at intermission, I had a short but nice conversation with a guy who wanted to know what tartan I was wearing...MacNaughton.

And finally, before the second half when I stood up to allow a slender, quite exotic-looking dark-haired woman to get by to her seat...right in front of Joan but subtle enough that nobody but I would see it, I got a wink that was pure flirt. Now, I'm heavy, bald and 50 years old. Women don't "wink" at me....and that goes ten times over when I'm in trousers. But this one did......I smiled and said nothing. Pretty funny.

Wearing a kilt is both fun, and sometimes....a real crackup.

[McFarkus]

Wow! Great story - upholding the honour of the kilted community with great panache.

[Monkey@Arms]

Wow! Great story - upholding the honour of the kilted community with great panache.

What, Panache was there too? Alan, you're just going to make Grant jealous with stories like that.

Best regards,

Jake

[beowulf67]

LOL, great story. Sometimes you just have to enjoy the attention.

[James MacMillan]

Me too! I'm old, heavy (fat) bald, bearded and I still get women flirting with me everyonce in a while!

The power of the kilt!!!

[Sardious]

you'd think at the ballet you are most likely to have people who have seen a kilt as high fashon before. We you all in the sancy sporran and nice shes and all? More older people (60's+) seem inclines to talk about the kilt when I go to the plays or musicals. They are all wiser classier and wealthier than I'll probably ever be so getting respect for the kilt from them feels nice

[DTrain]

I'm wondering if this is why my wife really doesn't like me wearing the kilt. It does seem to invite plenty of attention from the ladies.

[McMurdo]

Great story Alan, glad you enjoyed the Opera, and glad some others enjoyed your kilt.

[ccga3359]

Kilted? I thought one wore a tutu for the ballet!

[Moosedog]

Kilted? I thought one wore a tutu for the ballet!

Tutu check?

moosedog