Share a time you wish you were kilted

**OKSooner** · 16th March 16, 07:24 PM

I wore white tie to an event last year. I LOVE the tailcoat, and its very elegant appearance. That said, Scottish white tie is beautiful too. I wish I had the kit for it.

**Mississippi** · 17th March 16, 11:15 PM

I travel a lot. Unfortunately when I arrive at my destination I must be in company attire which does not include a kilt. I wish every time that I fly I was in my kilt. I have no idea why everyone in charge of buildings believe that 80 degrees is the appropriate temperature in there. The moment I get out of my carriage and walk into the airport I am hot, I am hot walking, I am hot waiting, I am hot on the plane, I am hot everywhere. One thing I have noticed about wearing my kilt, is that I am much more tolerable of heat. So, I wish that I could wear my kilt when traveling. I thought about bringing along a change of clothes, but my steel toed work boots take up a lot of room in my luggage and are much better worn on my feet.
For me wering a kilt is more so for comfort than anything else, so thats my story !

**Michael Weatherhead** · 17th March 16, 11:32 PM

I lived in Scotland, as a young man. When I got married, a few years later, I wish I had worn a kilt. I rented a tux, so I'm sure I could have found a place, in the Phx/Mesa Az area, where I could have rented a kilt, etc. I didn't buy one in Scotland, because, honestly, they were so expensive.

**Michael Weatherhead** · 17th March 16, 11:35 PM

Today was St. Patricks day 2016. I wish I had worn it, while running errands/shopping. Then maybe the Mexican lady, in the green t-shirt, would not have come up, and pinched me, in the Verizon store. Oh well. That's another story. On another thread.

**TheForrester** · 28th March 16, 08:54 PM

If I had it to do all over again, I would have worn my kilt to my daughter's wedding. Down the aisle, giving away the bride.

**jetstar63** · 29th March 16, 01:13 AM

I think we all wish we could look at old photographs of ourselves as babies in kilts, and wearing them while growing up.

**thecompaqguy** · 29th March 16, 10:58 AM

I wish I wore mine to a wedding last weekend, but the weather was not great thanks to Storm Katie (the UK are having a go at naming these Atlantic systems

) so I'm saving it for another function

I also have a Loud McLeod I want to wear when the weather is better

**Jack Daw** · 29th March 16, 03:17 PM

I was invited to a party once and was asked to bring my pipes to play as it was an outdoor thing. It was a very informal event, more like a pool party and I figured I would wear shorts and a Tommy Bahama shirt. I knew I was going to get hot from piping and thought I would leave the kilt at home. Well, big mistake, as I kept getting asked why I wasn't in kilt....and, "How can you play the pipes and not be in kilt?" Lesson learned.

**tpa** · 29th March 16, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by jetstar63

I think we all wish we could look at old photographs of ourselves as babies in kilts, and wearing them while growing up.

Some of us can!

**tripleblessed** · 30th March 16, 08:46 AM

A lot of days, as I came to kilts late. I've said often that as a theater/concert lighting tech/rigger working as much as 350' up, but more often 20-40 feet up I couldn't convince myself it was appropriate. This thread, however, put me in mind of conversations I had with supervisors I didn't work for telling me I wasn't legal and engineers who didn't understand rigging telling me I couldn't do what I was doing. Would have curtailed those harangues, but would probably also have eliminated the apologies they brought back later after trying to have me thrown out of the building before they checked and found I was correct.