Comfort Level

**TheBlueCow** · 11th February 09, 01:16 AM

I took the whole week off of work when I got my first kilt, and wore it every day (excluding one night at a bar). At the end of the week, I didn't want to take it off.

**Larry124** · 11th February 09, 01:25 AM

Depends on the venue.
At home I take it for granted except for being aware of being very comfortable.
At certain events nearly so.
Anywhere & everywhere - not so much.
Yet.

GG · 11th February 09, 03:08 AM

Originally Posted by GMan

Hell-o all,

Just out of curiosity how long did it take you to get completely comfortable wearing the Kilt regularly?

For me it took about three days.

It took me about 30 seconds to realize that a kilt is a fantastic garment to wear. It took considerably more time to feel totally at ease when wearing it.
I had a feeling that everybody were looking at me and talking about me. When walking in a street and hearing laughter I thought it was over me.
Then I started to imagine that I was wearing a kilt when in fact I was in trousers. And I had precisely the same feeling. There were laughter and other kinds of suspicious noises. But it couldn’t be over my kilt – which I was not wearing.
Therefore I came to the conclusion that I had a problem when I was kilted. Other people hadn’t or just couldn’t care less.
And if they didn’t care, why should I?

Greg

**shawhighlander** · 11th February 09, 03:21 AM

Originally Posted by GG

Then I started to imagine that I was wearing a kilt when in fact I was in trousers. And I had precisely the same feeling.

Great observation!

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**Mipi** · 11th February 09, 04:23 AM

Originally Posted by GG

I had a feeling that everybody were looking at me and talking about me. When walking in a street and hearing laughter I thought it was over me.
Then I started to imagine that I was wearing a kilt when in fact I was in trousers. And I had precisely the same feeling. There were laughter and other kinds of suspicious noises. But it couldn’t be over my kilt – which I was not wearing.
Therefore I came to the conclusion that I had a problem when I was kilted. Other people hadn’t or just couldn’t care less.
And if they didn’t care, why should I?

Greg

Exactly!!!!!!!!!

I'm not the person who likes to be in the focus. So, I feel good in the kilt, but the question is more how I deal with crowd in general; kilted or not. As I'm getting older, I care less for others (who are not impotant to me). Even in the crowded mall, basically you're very much alone - everyone is alone with their thoughts and doing their business (more or less). Maybe shopping mall is not such a bad idea to start; no drunks, a lot of people to feel safe...

Good luck a lot of courage to all!

**McNulty** · 11th February 09, 05:52 AM

It took me a couple of weeks to get comfortable wearing the kilt. It has taken me about a year to be wearing it regularly and be comfortable in it. I am now kilted Friday through Sunday, all day. At one point, out shopping or whatever, every laugh, voice, comment, look, or gesture, I imagined was directed at me because I was kilted (I haven't worn a kilt to the local rodeo YET). Now, even if the comments etc are directed my way, I ignore them and hold my head up and motor on. I'll smile, nod my head, and say to myself "Now, that was easy."
Nulty

**ForresterModern** · 11th February 09, 07:09 AM

Suited up for the first time (outside the house) for the Arizona Highland games in Phoenix about this time last year, about a week or so after my kit and first kilt had arrived. Felt a little self conscious walking from the car to the entrance but immediately felt better when I entered the gate and ran into another guy wearing my identical ForresterModern tartan kilt (my wife noticed it first). We spoke, and although we share a last name and probably distant ancestry did not have any common background or known relatives. That made me feel more comfortable , enough to cruise the games the rest of the day without any self consciousness. Strange though seeing one's own family tartan right off the bat that first day. It is not a common tartan, and other than the Clan Forrester website and tartan listings online I have never seen it since. Also seeing about every other or every third male kilted helped as well---definitely not sticking out in the crowd helped immensely. Thereafter, has not been a problem wearing it whereever I choose.

Also helped that I had my two week old son with us in his stroller wearing an infant MacDonald kilt as well----nice distraction for passersby to focus on him instead of me.

**Kiltboy** · 11th February 09, 07:25 AM

Took me a one day. After all the freedom, the comfort, and receiving four phone numbers from random strangers who wanted to know me better

, I knew the kilt was for me.

**sathor** · 11th February 09, 07:36 AM

Originally Posted by Nighthawk

About 30 years. I have had one all of my life, having grown up in a Celtic-influenced household, but I only wore it on certain occasions. And then I got married. I wore my Amerikilt our entire honeymoon, and I just decided... Screw it! I love the things and I want to wear them! To h**l with what anyone thinks!

And that was it!

I'm sure that it was your honeymoon helped. You were away from home after all....

**sathor** · 11th February 09, 07:38 AM

Part of what took me so long to get used to it was actually my combative wife. She said at one point it drew too much attention to her, later she changed to jealousy over my not having to shave my legs. Last week, my son and I were both kilted, and she was wearing a twilight shirt that had the rampant lion on it. I don't know if the wedding we went to where I was kilted helped, or seeing a few other kilts near the wedding (but not at), or perhaps when a random person gave us a trading card showing 4 local cops in kilts that sure looked alot like mine....