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**GMan** · 22nd December 05, 03:42 PM

Wear it with Pride brother!

**cormacmacguardhe** · 22nd December 05, 05:45 PM

My thanks for all the support and encouragement.

**cormacmacguardhe** · 24th December 05, 12:42 AM

Well I wore it well. My wife talked to her mother on the phone before the family gathering, and her mother was really happy to hear that I would be kilted. On our way to the get together we had to stop at a supermarket to pick up some cider. While standing in line, I heard this very sweet soft scottish voice say, "I haven't seen a man in a kilt since my grandfather died." It was a lady in her late 60's. Her grandparents were from north of Loch Ness. It has been a very nice day.

**Bob C** · 24th December 05, 06:59 AM

Originally Posted by cormacmacguardhe

While standing in line, I heard this very sweet soft scottish voice say, "I haven't seen a man in a kilt since my grandfather died." It was a lady in her late 60's. Her grandparents were from north of Loch Ness. It has been a very nice day.

Nice! Aren't you glad you wore it, now?

**GMan** · 24th December 05, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by cormacmacguardhe

Well I wore it well. My wife talked to her mother on the phone before the family gathering, and her mother was really happy to hear that I would be kilted. On our way to the get together we had to stop at a supermarket to pick up some cider. While standing in line, I heard this very sweet soft scottish voice say, "I haven't seen a man in a kilt since my grandfather died." It was a lady in her late 60's. Her grandparents were from north of Loch Ness. It has been a very nice day.

That in itself is a great reason to don the kilt. One has to love it.

**JayFilomena** · 25th December 05, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by cormacmacguardhe

Well I wore it well. My wife talked to her mother on the phone before the family gathering, and her mother was really happy to hear that I would be kilted.

My inlaws are 6 hours away in New York, and they have no desire to see me in a kilt. I actually have no desire to see them at all, but I digress. My inlaws are from Italy and my wife is first generation American born, and the other day I visited a recommended website for an Italian Kilt, http://www.clansmanitalia.com/ and I love it. I am thinking that if I wore the Italian tartan, it might take some of the tension off the future gatherings, if not....like most of you said....I gotta be me...

**michael steinrok** · 24th December 05, 01:24 PM

I refer to my own signature :razz:

**Bil** · 24th December 05, 01:30 PM

Right on brother!! That rules, and it's cool to hear how you uplifted a nice lady's day like that, even though that wasn't your intention. You've gotta admire the power of the kilt.

**Rob Wright** · 24th December 05, 10:16 PM

Good to hear.

It's not always easy to deal with family. Tonight I was kilted for the candlelight service at my parents church and my dad had requested that I nor wear the kilt he runs hot and cold about it. I wore it and I know most of the people who go to the church and they would of thught something was wrong if I had wore pants, but i loved the reactio nof my father when the college girls all came up to me after the service and were asking for permission to feel the pleats

Not only that but tonight is the first time I was able to get my father to wear the Douglas tartan. Not a kilt, he borrowed my tie in the tartan for another service he and my mom are attending on the reservation with friends. So tonight which had the potential for family flairup, turned out instead to be one of the better family get togethers in a long while.

Rob