Questions for the full time people.

[Yaish]

Full time other than work, which sort of answers one question right there.

Is it a lifestyle choice? Sure, in the same way that eating vegetables with every meal is a lifestyle choice. It's something I choose to do, but I do so because I like the comfort, the style, and the historical connection (even with modern kilts)

Did I give up any hobbies that require pants? Well I never had any hobbies that required pants. I've done some things in a kilt that others thought crazy (skiing, snowboarding, paintball) but to be honest my biggest hobby REQUIRES kilts (Highland Games).
If I need to wear pants, I wear pants. It's a non-issue.

Do I do it for the attention? I honestly don't notice much attention. I get some, and some of that I would just as happily do without as I generally don't like talking to people if I have the choice. Sometimes though the kilt has opened doors or been an icebreaker that led to meeting some nice people and having some wonderful conversations.

[JS Sanders]

My livelihood is that of a piper. So by definition, a kilt is wrapped around me throughout the week. I cannot recall the last occasion when I was kilted and pipe-less.

Piping is a vocation, and to a lesser degree an avocation, so difficult to ascertain how much I attribute to being a hobby. I do enjoy kilt nights, so there must at least a modicum of it.

It's difficult to distinguish the attention received from being kilted or being the piper. Admittedly, the majority of the time I have no objections to the attention brought.

During my "off-time" though, bifurcators are the norm and I have more of those than kilts.

How 'bout re-phrasing your inquiry a bit and perhaps we can provide answers more in line with your question?

Slainte,
steve

[Rex_Tremende]

Is it a lifestyle choice? Sure, in the same way that eating vegetables with every meal is a lifestyle choice.

Great retort. I think it's so lame the way we label behaviors that seem unusual (meaning "not what I do") as a life style choice, as though our own set of behaviors were not a life style or a choice. Unless one has never even considered wearing trousers, of course it's a choice AND the way one styles his life! Let's understand the underlying motivations for- assumptions about the question, otherwise it's meaningless inquiry.

So, Raphael, why do you ask?

Regards,
Rex.

[Raphael]

So, Raphael, why do you ask?

Regards,
Rex.

I ask because I want to know.

[SteveB]

I work in denim trousers. The rest of the time I am usually kilted. It is a clothing style that is natural to me for fifty years. The only change is that at present there is more time kilted. I wear trousers when climbing my antenna towers, as the steel can leave some nasty burns on bare skin during the summer months. One of my hobbies being amateur radio. Do I do it for attention? Not really. Around here it is usually a big yawn. Too many cultures displayed here to make it a big deal. If I wanted attention I would wear a really big turban with my black kilt, an image of Mohammad on the front of a wife beater, standing outside the local Mosque right after prayer service.

[Derek]

I wear my Cilt simply because it is a part of me.
Iechyd Da
Derek