
Originally Posted by
bdkilted
It is a shame that when a man wears manly attire he is thought be gay.
I related in another thread about my experience with some friends at a Christmas party last week. While most of my friends were okay (& even excited) with me in a kilt, one male friend, originally from San Antonio, was visibly uncomfortable by being any where near me in a kilt (I made sure to stand near him often
).
He's a bit of a "good ol' boy", and though nothing was said, I got the impression he thinks its less than manly to wear the kilt. At one point, as I returned from the washroom, I heard him say something about my being gone "adjusting my dress". I just let it roll off my shoulders & didn't even acknowledge I heard him (he wasn't going to rain on my parade!
).
I'm sure he wonders about me now, despite about 10 years of knowing me & my wife! Whatever, he was in the minority with his feelings that night.
What I thought was really cool was that my 11 yr old daughter (Shannon) told me that his 12 yr old daughter asked Shannon why I was wearing a skirt, to which Shannon replied "its not a skirt, its a kilt!"

[SIZE="2"][FONT="Georgia"][COLOR="DarkGreen"][B][I]T. E. ("TERRY") HOLMES[/I][/B][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
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