Questions for the full time people.

[michaelbeeman]

- Is this a life style choice? Only in the sense that any clothing choice is.

- Do you give up a hobby, if it requires to wear pants? Or do you try to adopt the kilt into a hobby? None of my hobbies require any particular type of garment, but if pants were required for safety or what have you, sure I'd wear them.

- Are you doing it for attention? No, I'm wearing kilts full time (nearly 7 yrs) because I love the comfort, and the style as well. Much the same with my tattoos, those are for me. The fact of others liking them too, why, that's alright as well.

[Rex_Tremende]

Is it a lifestyle choice? Sure, in the same way that eating vegetables with every meal is a lifestyle choice.

Great retort. I think it's so lame the way we label behaviors that seem unusual (meaning "not what I do") as a life style choice, as though our own set of behaviors were not a life style or a choice. Unless one has never even considered wearing trousers, of course it's a choice AND the way one styles his life! Let's understand the underlying motivations for- assumptions about the question, otherwise it's meaningless inquiry.

So, Raphael, why do you ask?

Regards,
Rex.

[brendillon]

Eating vegetables isn't really a lifestyle choice, that's more of a health/nutrition issue. If you don't eat veggies, chances are you're going to become ill.

[Roan Carter]

- Is this a life style choice?
Eventually it turns into that. It really changes so much.
- Do you give up a hobby, if it requires to wear pants? Or do you try to adopt the kilt into a hobby?
Nah. I wear my pants when I need to.
- Are you doing it for attention?
Not really ... they it's impossible to ignore the advantages of a kilt.

[ardchoille]

- Is this a life style choice?
I feel it is, yes.

- Do you give up a hobby, if it requires to wear pants? Or do you try to adopt the kilt into a hobby?
I always try to incorporate the kilt into the hobby. However, I have quite a job when I was not allowed to wear the kilt to work. The kilt is that important to me and I don't own any pants.

- Are you doing it for attention?
Nope, I do it for the freedom and to show my allegiance to my family.. and because it's quite comfortable. My first kilt has lasted five years.. I don't know of many pants which would last that long.

[LairdOfTheBrae]

hmmmmm....i just had an idea. kilts for our ice hockey team. we could wear a protective girdle underneath and our socks and shinpads as normal. might be intimidating.

[Buckskin]

Motorcycling is a life style. One that I made 10 years ago. Embracing my heritage is a newer commitment. I haven't figured out how to put the two together yet, not on wheels yet. I have worn a kilt to several biker functiones, just drove to get there. It was still cool enough to get away with that.

[threebanger]

I keep getting asked if I will ride in a kilt. I usually say, "Not on a regular basis, but yeah, probably around the block just to say I have!"

A lifestyle is how we choose to live our life...vegetarian or meat-eater, regular or decaf, biker or cager, kilted or not...it's just a part of how we have chosen to live, I think. I wear pants most of the time, but I wear a kilt on occasion. It is a choice I have made about how I will live my life. Others who wear kilts full time and those who do not wear one at all have made a choice as well.

[Raphael]

So, Raphael, why do you ask?

Regards,
Rex.

I ask because I want to know.

[SteveB]

I work in denim trousers. The rest of the time I am usually kilted. It is a clothing style that is natural to me for fifty years. The only change is that at present there is more time kilted. I wear trousers when climbing my antenna towers, as the steel can leave some nasty burns on bare skin during the summer months. One of my hobbies being amateur radio. Do I do it for attention? Not really. Around here it is usually a big yawn. Too many cultures displayed here to make it a big deal. If I wanted attention I would wear a really big turban with my black kilt, an image of Mohammad on the front of a wife beater, standing outside the local Mosque right after prayer service.