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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Webb
    Just an hour ago I encountered a man from Scotland at Walmart. For the second time he approached me and complimented me grandly on my kilt. He also said that he always looked for me at Walmart and was really glad to see me. I felt great!... etc.
    Cool!... I had a similar encounter at a Home Depot a couple of years ago, although the fellow professed to owning a kilt... he admitted to wearing it for special occasions only. I do find Wal*Mart an interesting place to wear a kilt though. The stores always seem to attract an interesting cast of characters.

    A fun story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Webb
    Just an hour ago I encountered a man from Scotland at Walmart. For the second time he approached me and complimented me grandly on my kilt. He also said that he always looked for me at Walmart and was really glad to see me. I felt great!

    I asked him if he ever wore a kilt and he emphatically said 'No!' I said I'd be happy to give him one of mine and he replied that he just didn't have the legs for it and that it would be too long on account of him being too short for a kilt.

    I shook his hand and thanked him for his encouragement and told him that I really enjoy wearing my kilts and am thankful than I can.

    I'm a Native Texan and have heard similar remarks from other Native Texans about Cowboy hats. Many, many Texans don't even own one, often because they think they don't look good in it ... too tall, too short, makes me look fat or skinny.

    I wear cowboy hats with my kilts at work ... admittedly, even I know I'm a bit of a character. I guess my question is this: Do you wear your kilts because you simply look good in one and, likewise, do you ever not wear your kilt because you don't think you look good in one?

    Lord knows that I've got a dozen reasons I can give for wearing my kilts, but, in the end, I must admit that I think I just look better in a kilt than anything else. For all the high minded reasons I've concocted I may well be just a vanity kilt wearer after all.

    I hope not, but I'm not sure why I hope not ... maybe just feeling like you really look good in one is reason enough.

    Chris Webb

    aye

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    Probably vanity when I wear one of my knee length wool kilts - and my wife says I have the legs for the kilt - but vanity doesn't come into it with either of my cheap all black polycotton kilts - I just wear these for comfort and the fact that they are a bit longer and the hemline on them hits to the top of black hose or rugby socks means they don't draw the same attention as a traditional kilt would.
    Regional Director for Scotland for Clan Cunningham International, and a Scottish Armiger.

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    I don"t wear kilts everywhere I go. I do wear one at home most of the time, and I've started wearing them out to dinner and such. I can say two things, I have more kilts now than jeans, and I wear the kilt a heck of a lot more than I wear suits. (only own one for funerals and such). As to why, I'm not sure how good I look in one. I'm a 63 year old overweight old fart with arthritic knees. But I don't really give a tinker's dam what others think about the way the kilt looks on me, I wear it because it's comfortable and I like wearing it.
    "A day spent in the fields and woods, or on the water should not count as a day off our allotted number upon this earth."
    Jerry, Kilted Old Fart.

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    There's definitely some vanity involved, especially the "attention factor". I have received many compliments while kilted, but in trousers I'm just another bald, overweight guy.
    We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb

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    Heritage, comfort, being a bit out of the "norm" and of course I look good in it - males and females have told me.
    Glen McGuire

    A Life Lived in Fear, Is a Life Half Lived.

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