"No Thanks"?

[Mikilt]

I completely agree that we all may feel that there are some times when trousers are preferable to the kilt. I am interested to know if you know of anyone who has rejected the kilt outright after giving it a fair try.

[Bugbear]

I completely agree that we all may feel that there are some times when trousers are preferable to the kilt. I am interested to know if you know of anyone who has rejected the kilt outright after giving it a fair try.

Yes, Mikilt, I have stopped wearing the kilt, and that was after a few years. I have also let go of tartan; that one was painful.

It is not a point of view I wish to tell everyone else they should have; please don't take it that way.

[Mikilt]

Yes, Mikilt, I have stopped wearing the kilt, and that was after a few years. I have also let go of tartan; that one was painful.

It is not a point of view I wish to tell everyone else they should have; please don't take it that way.

I understand, sir.

[piperdbh]

Yes, Mikilt, I have stopped wearing the kilt, and that was after a few years. I have also let go of tartan; that one was painful.

That's too bad, Ted. I often think of you in the hot sunshine harvesting whatever's in season, wearing a kilt, Argyll jacket and wool tie, quietly muttering to yourself about which side of the ponderosa needs more compost.

[Bugbear]

That's too bad, Ted. I often think of you in the hot sunshine harvesting whatever's in season, wearing a kilt, Argyll jacket and wool tie, quietly muttering to yourself about which side of the ponderosa needs more compost.

I suppose there is a positive side... I didn't spend hundreds and possibly thousands of dollars more on highland attire, only to end up feeling icky and wrong about wearing it.

But you are correct, piperdbh, I belong in overalls and an old straw hat, not a kilt, and not worrying about black tie attire.

[MacMillans son]

I suppose there is a positive side... I didn't spend hundreds and possibly thousands of dollars more on highland attire, only to end up feeling icky and wrong about wearing it.

But you are correct, piperdbh, I belong in overalls and an old straw hat, not a kilt, and not worrying about black tie attire.

Of course you are always welcome Bugbear, but I am curious as to why you would continue to participate on a kilt board?

[Bugbear]

Of course you are always welcome Bugbear, but I am curious as to why you would continue to participate on a kilt board?

I made a few friends here during my kilted days, and I manage one of the forum's social groups.

[MacBean]

I for one am delighted that Bugbear hangs out here, and hope some day to botanize with him out there. Kilts and all are very nice, but I look for something subtler in the Highland legacy, and I think it lies in the land itself and its people rather than its fashions. A recent visit to the Gaeltact of Ireland (my first), was as life-changing as visits to the Highlands in the past, though I lament the loss of the old forests, just as I did as a child in England.

But back to the original question. I wonder what made you ask it in the first place?

[BoldHighlander]

I suppose there is a positive side... I didn't spend hundreds and possibly thousands of dollars more on highland attire, only to end up feeling icky and wrong about wearing it.

But you are correct, piperdbh, I belong in overalls and an old straw hat, not a kilt, and not worrying about black tie attire.

We all go through different seasons in our lives Ted. Who knows, one day you may find yourself donning a kilt again. As the saying goes "never say never"

[Bugbear]

We all go through different seasons in our lives Ted. Who knows, one day you may find yourself donning a kilt again. As the saying goes "never say never"

That's true. But for now I am an unkilted scarecrow.

I also don't watch TV, I don't have one, or listen to the radio, and this is the only forum I belong to. I spend a lot of time either reading or writing things on my computer, so it's nice to have a place to take a break.

And for the garden report, there is one last stalk of blue corn out there with four ears on it; ears B4.1 through B4.4 I'm waiting for their kernels to harden up a bit more before I harvest them; it's ancient flour corn, and the ears are very short and small (3 to 6 inches).