Knowing what we all know now ...

[UmAnOnion]

Someone wore lederhosen all the time in college?!?!?!

Hey, what about the naked guy at one of the colleges a few years back who refused to wear anything more than shoes for the majority of the year...

Compared to that lederhosen is a walk in the park - and a kilt would be considered far too overdressed!

[Oswulf]

Not to change the topic too much, but I see a lot of similarities among us older fellows. Wondering if there is any correlation between personality types and kilt wearing. Anyone taken the Meyers-Briggs Personality Profile and be willing to share their profile and age? If so, send me an email and I'll publish what I receive in a separate thread. I'm INTJ.

Tom

Well the online test I just took says I'm an ISTJ-Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging, for whatever that's worth. I tend to be a little skeptical about such things as my answers could easily change depending on my mood.

[Eujeankilt]

I did high school in the 70s and college as well. I didn't have the confidance then. Even five years ago when I saw the first Utilikilts at the Oregon Country Fair, I secretly lusted after one, but wouldn't bring myself to try one on. Since then, after personal crises and much self-reflection (and age - I'll be 50 this year) has allowed me to let go of alot of crap and be myself. Now myself is kilted and loving it........

Dale


PS - Great question!

[cessna152towser]

Like others who have posted I would have been embarrassed to wear a kilt as a youngster - peer pressure etc... First time I wore a kilt was for a charity event when I was 38 - a cheap second hand black watch from a thrift shop which didn't fit particularly well, but I was hooked and immediately afterwards ordered a new made to measure one - I was already into Scottish Country dancing and my new kilt replaced the trousers for this activity. Then I took up piping - another kilted activity. But I first wore a kilt for everyday wear at the age of 51 when I sustained a leg injury and couldn't get into trousers so went into work kilted. Much to my surprise, the kilt was very well received by management, colleagues and customers, and proved very comfortable for office work.

[auld argonian]

But tell me, Cessna, and I ask this with genuine curiousity....is there a tendency in Scotland to feel that the kilt is something that's worn as an eccentricity or for the benefit of the tourists...I don't mean to sound critical or cynical in asking this, I'd just like to know. I've heard folks out in the American West brag that they can tell a "real" cowboy from a "dude" any time...that there's sort of a je ne sais quoi at work that tips the experienced observer off in a minute. Is it just another part of everyday dress for the average guy or is it a thing for special events or circumstances?

Best

AA

[KiltedKnight]

As a high schooler I was fairly introverted to be sure but I enlisted in the US Army at the end of my junior year, (1970), during a very anti-establishment period in America. Once a soldier though I was pretty much an 'in-your-face' kind of person and I wore my uniform often while at home on leave, I guess just to spite those hippie types that hated the uniform so much, (most of the hippie girls LOVED a guy in uniform, it was the questionable 'male' hippies that were afraid of the military).
I definately think that I would have worn the Kilt in school out of pride in my heritage but it would definately be a full 8 yard 16 oz "Tank" as you guys call them. I have always believed in going all the way.

Chris.

[Kilted KT]

I would have worn the kilt without question. Throughout junior and high school ('87-'93), I was the epitome of a fashion misfit. I wore clothes that I found comfortable, regardless of what it looked like. US camoflauge pants/shorts, Converse chucks and a too-large tie-dye shirt were fairly common attire. For formal occasions I would swap the tie-dye for a white button-down and a marvin the martian or three stooges tie.

Had I had a kilt, I would have worn it every day, through college and to this day.

hmm...whomever came up with this quote should be rich by now...

"If I only knew then what I know now..."

[mbhandy]

The only way I wore a kilt in High School[65] was in a play. Then I went to England [66] USAF and you could order a kilt on base but they were out of my price range. It wasn't till I got interested in reinactment that I got interested in wearing a kilt. Now I have 4 and I don't care what people think about what I wear :rolleyes: OK I like the reactions of the people around me.

MrBill

[Ugly Bear]

Knowing what we all know now about Cilts/Kilts, comfort/warmth etc, if you could turn the clock back, how many of us would have been prepared to wear them to school and/or as an everyday casual garment back then.

If I knew then what I know now, I would not have been the same person. And I would have grown up to be a different person.

Taking the question at face value, the answer is no. I would not have worn a kilt to my suburban high school in the mid-80's. I would not have been ready for it. The experience would have been traumatizing, probably. But that's the thing: what would have traumatized my teenage self, the grown-up self I am today can take in stride.

Teenaged me and myself today would not have gotten on at all. But we're probably united in our disdain for elderly me, coming up in a couple more decades.

[MacSimoin]

Just feel the need to echo Ugly Bear's comments:

If I knew then what I know now, I would not have been the same person. And I would have grown up to be a different person.

I totally agree with this but also feel it's fruitless to imagine what you'd be like if you knew then the things you know now. Simply put, it's unimportant.

Taking the question at face value, the answer is no. I would not have worn a kilt to my suburban high school in the mid-80's.

I have no doubt I'd have tried to wear kilts while in high school; but considering the upper-class conservative school district I came from, and the ultra-strict upbringing I labored through, courtesy of my parents, it would have never happened.

Teenaged me and myself today would not have gotten on at all. But we're probably united in our disdain for elderly me, coming up in a couple more decades.

This is actually one of the funniest things written in this thread. "Teenaged Me" would have no doubt been scared to death of "Me Now" but we'd both probably be frightened out of our wits by "Middle Aged Me", who's been banging on the door for the past year. I don't think he's going away.