Kilt experiences

[billsides]

The attraction of women to men in kilts is amazing. At school in the army cadets and outfitted with ancient kilts and rifles, I often travelled on public transport, marched in street parades and at displays. Girls often shadowed me and chatted freely, but only when kilted. That was a long time ago but things seem no different now. Recently I had an hour to kill after a Scottish Country Dancing class so went window shopping at a nearby shopping mall. I was in a kilt with long socks and polo shirt, my normal dancing class attire. Within moments of entering the mall, two 20 year old girls approached this 65 year old man and started chatting me up big time. It soon began to get too involved so I beat a retreat. It appears they were fresh from Ireland and confessed to loving men in kilts. A few minutes later I entered a shop only to have a girl of similar age follow me in and start asking equally involved questions before confessing “I love seeing a man in a kilt, I think I am going to cry”. She had Scottish ancestry. This was at 4.00PM on a Wednesday afternoon in a quiet shopping mall! I am sure all three would have followed me home if invited. At dancing class it is similar for a very different age range. Women there outnumber men 5 to 1 at least and some are man-hungry aged Scottish widows so when I first started dancing, it was plain scary. Those women on meeting a man who danced was one thing but being in a kilt; it was almost too much! Many have tried to chat me up and years later my butt is still regularly felt at classes through the kilt but so far none have tried to peek or feel up my kilt. That has happened twice, both times by women at major service club dress up functions when hands darted up from behind. One was overheard to ask what was found and the answer was “not much” which was the correct answer that time!
I am endlessly asked what I wear under my kilt which I find very annoying. My answer is “Look down, it’s shoes and socks” This leaves them wondering. In the street little kids will gaze at a man wearing a “skirt” but Scottish kilts are not rare here so guys never worry you, just women. Adolescents are not an issue either. What could be my “ultimate” compliment came from one, a rough young guy who yelled at me across a very crowded upmarket shopping area at the Melbourne Casino saying “F..........g grouse outfit mate!” I was going to a formal function at the Casino’s ballroom and the only one kilted.
Wear a kilt with pride, people of all ages do love men wearing them!
Bill

[Homer]

I wore my older kilt out to some window shopping before and the results are 98% positive. I get the occasional question about being Irish and greet it with a laugh. Some times ignorant guys call me queer but then they duck and run. I love the feeling of wearing one after someone smiles at it. Call me quirky.
My friends always say its awesome and girls always give me the "come hither" look. Who knows, maybe there's a method to the madness of romance novel writers putting kilted men on the cover.

[MacHiram]

I wear a kilt about four days a week (not at work...no sense of humor there) and I often hear, "Hey, nice skirt!" My reply is "if I wore a slip, then it would be a skirt"! Usually shuts them up.

[Cowher]

I have a theory that it's the confidence you display when kilted that attracts the ladies. When you strap on the tartan and walk out of the house you are prepaired for anything. cheers and jeers. But weather cheered or heckled you always try to handle everything with a graceful mysterious strength. That makes the ladies swoon.

[billsides]

Never thought of it like that but I suspect there is an element of truth in your suggestion. Ladies do like brave men and a guy by himself in a sea of trousers is showing he is gamer than the rest. I am sure no kilt wearer alive was not a wee bit apprehensive when he first ventured forth in a kilt.

Bill

[Dale Seago]

I am sure no kilt wearer alive was not a wee bit apprehensive when he first ventured forth in a kilt.

Well, as a sort of comparison, as a former wearer of eyeglasses (before I got my eyes zapped with Laser Death Rays), the instant my first contact lens touched my eye and before the second was on the other I knew I'd never wear glasses again except for reading.

Likewise the first time I put on a kilt, even before I went out to see the couple for whom I was about to perform a wedding, I *KNEW*. No apprehension whatsoever.

[Riverkilt]

Well, as a single man of 66 I LOVE IT!! Lots of fun, great way to meet ladies when out and about. A few years ago at a business conference a lady started passing me notes and escalated the content to providing me an invitation no single man could refuse. Never would have happened bifurcated.

With the help of the kilted gents on this board I've a selection of answers to all the usual questions. Its kind of fun to pause after a question, select an appropriate answer, and deliver it proudly.

I'm amazed at how many folks are just happy to see a kilt and have sincere questions about kilts - often where to buy one for themselves.

Kilting is FUN!!

[graham_s]

When I was in the service, before I got married, I used to take one of my kilts on every detachment I went on.
Most of these were overseas trips.
One of the best to my mind was a det to Belgium, and one weekend we went to Antwerp.
I was the only one in a kilt, and I was on the receiving end of a constant battery of negative comments from my colleagues (it was the military, so it didn't bother me in the slightest)
We were in an Irish bar at one point, they are all in a circle drinking.
I, on the other hand, am surrounded by a hen night from Cork.
Around 12 women, all of whom bear a striking resemblance to the girls from the Corrs.
While I spent the night getting drinks bought for me by beautiful women, (and ended up going back to the bridesmaids hotel to discuss what was worn under the kilt), they spent the night crying into their Guinness.

[GMan]

I was at a local restaurant once and this poor chap really did not know how to take a guy in a Kilt. He started to tell me no woman in their right mind would hang out with a Kilted guy. As if this was planned in walked a young good looking woman who came in and gave me nothing but praises as to the Kilt. Not only did she sang those praises but many other women who also walked in and followed suit. The poor chap was just speechless.

The Kilt speaks for itself.

[RockyR]

I saw a video of a speach where the speaker, having done hundreds of hours of research, found that 97% of women love a man in a kilt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB9Qn1sKevQ