So You're Going To Speak To Someone Who's Wearing A Kilt

[Old Hippie]

some citizens at a rest stop wanted a picture with her because she was in her leather biker gear.

My wife is a nurse. We ride motorcycles. Once she was locking up her bike at the hospital and a couple of doctors stopped to look her over. "What's the matter?" she asked. "Never seen a nurse in black leather?"

"Only in my dreams," replied one, rather wistfully.

I have come to the conclusion that if you can be singled out as being dressed 'differently' from the norm, no matter how mundane you think it is, I believe the general public sees your kilt in the same light as if you were sporting a Starfleet uniform!

Could be. One interesting thing I've noticed is that people get really thrown for a mental loop if you're not wearing a tartan. I wear contemporary kilts because that's what I have right now.

Most people make the connection pretty easily, because no matter what Steven Villegas says, a Utilikilt has some design elements suggestive of a kilt, not a man-skirt.

I occasionally get asked, "What tartan is that?" when I'm wearing a UK -- and I explain "tartan" is the pattern of the cloth, not the cloth itself. They're easy for us to "get" but as you say a lot of people still think only of kilts as "tartan, worn as costume."

At the local Highland Games a couple of weeks ago I had some interesting conversations with members of the Caledonian Society. Some of the comments were, "I'll bet you could wear that every day!" "Wow, I've never seen a kilt with pockets!" "That's a really practical look" "Where did you get THAT?" and "Is that a military kilt?"

I had assumed that people who make kilt-wearing part of their identity would have seen contemporary kilts, even own one or two. It does say something about how they may see the role of the kilt in their own lives.

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