Wish me luck.

**RockyR** · 17th March 06, 08:16 AM

I'm rocking the Ireland's National 5 yard wool (16 oz) today. It's a nice cool crisp mroning. Got a couple thumbs up walking down the street this morning.

As someone else said on the thread about wearing the kilt to work for the first time... Keep your head up, chest out, look people in the eye and SMILE! If you don't cause a "problem" wearing it, they're more likely to allow it again and again!

If anyone asks "the question" in a "semi up tight" work environment, I suggest using the retort, "I don't ask you what YOU'RE wearing under your pants, do I?" OR just wear underwear and if you get "the question", answer that you are wearing boxers today out of respect for management.

**porrick** · 17th March 06, 08:31 AM

Well, back from first day kilted at work. Great success (I knew it would be), and with all colleagues and students there was only one anticipated stupid question, and that from the female dean. She was corrected by others before I could retort, and was obviously embarrassed. :rolleyes:

Kilted to work next week, but in the mean time a few stouts at home and at the local. Kilted? Stupid question!

PS
Nothing new, just a confirmation:
the kilt is not a mere garment, but an attitude

**macwilkin** · 17th March 06, 08:44 AM

I'm wearing my Hector Russell Cumming Hunting (ancient colours) today, as I have to go and give a wee presentation about St. Patrick's Day to a local nursing home this afternoon. So far I've only had a few double-takes from the students; the student selling shamrocks from the college's greenhouse loved it when I bought some just a few minutes ago for my office! :mrgreen:

Cheers,

Todd

**michael steinrok** · 17th March 06, 09:31 AM

Wishing you success today.Happy St Paddys'Day or Erin Go Braugh!

**Bob C** · 17th March 06, 09:34 AM

Well, here's what I wore. All good reactions in the office and at my credit union. I'll be going out to lunch with my wife in a little while. We'll see what happens there.

When I got back from the credit union, one of the guys said, "You were being watched. The girls were hoping the wind would show them what's underneath." I grabbed the back of the kilt and said, "Hell, I can arrange THAT!" They giggled and blushed, but I exercised modesty.

**Cawdorian** · 17th March 06, 10:00 AM

Bob,

The outfit looks great, the colors in your office are well coordinated with the kilt.

**Bob C** · 17th March 06, 11:21 AM

Update: Lunch was uneventful. A couple a redneck-looking guys eyeballed me pretty good when we walked in, but I overheard their conversation afterward and they were talking about how their families emigrated to this country.

So, it's all good.

**prattw** · 17th March 06, 01:09 PM

I wore a kilt today, Grant Hunting with forest green hose, in honor of St. Paidraig's day and Celtic solidarity. What a concept that is. When I was in elementary school my old Granny, who lived with my family, sent me off to school on this day wearing an orange roseatte. I had sense enough to take it off once I was out of sight, though the only kids who wore green were actually of Catholic Irish background and the much larger contingent of Ulster Scots ancestry would have known what the orange meant, and probably would have agreed. To have worn a kilt that day would have been a deliberate ethnic insult, more or less equivalent to wearing a bedsheet in honor of Martin Luther King's birthday. (Not to mention getting some VERY strange looks over wearing one.)

We've come a long way in the past half century.

What I really wanted to pass on, though, was what happened on the local early news on channel 3 about 0530 this morning. A female reporter was doing a St. Patrick's day series from a local Irish-themed restaurant. In one of the segments she was interviewing the manager who was wearing a kilt. She asked "the question". So he showed her. On camera, live. The look on her face as he took hold of his kilt apron was something to behold. Turned out he was wearing white boxers with green shamrocks, but just for that second she was a candidate for heart failure.

Will Pratt

**Livingston** · 17th March 06, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by prattw

What I really wanted to pass on, though, was what happened on the local early news on channel 3 about 0530 this morning. A female reporter was doing a St. Patrick's day series from a local Irish-themed restaurant. In one of the segments she was interviewing the manager who was wearing a kilt. She asked "the question". So he showed her. On camera, live. The look on her face as he took hold of his kilt apron was something to behold. Turned out he was wearing white boxers with green shamrocks, but just for that second she was a candidate for heart failure.

Will Pratt

Will...I was VERY close to losing some good Scotch with that one!!

**mudd** · 17th March 06, 08:13 PM

Well boys, thanks for the well wishing.

I just now made it home and I survived the day with my ego intact. Actually, I kind of exaggerated my anticipation of reactions. The place I work could be a poster child for political correctness and diversity awareness. We could do demos! :rolleyes:

In fact, it was kind of fun to watch. The majority of people, whom I don’t know personally, would glance at me and quickly look away avoiding eye contact at all costs while trying not to let on that anything was out of the ordinary. A few individuals gave me a look like I had just murdered someone and they didn’t want to let on that they knew. Hysterical!

The people that I work directly with usually made just one quick positive comment, and said nothing else. All the females said something like “looks good”. Two friends asked me “Are you wearing underwear?” to which I simply asked back “Why, aren’t you?”

All in all, a good day to be kilted.