Questions for the full time people.

[threebanger]

I keep getting asked if I will ride in a kilt. I usually say, "Not on a regular basis, but yeah, probably around the block just to say I have!"

A lifestyle is how we choose to live our life...vegetarian or meat-eater, regular or decaf, biker or cager, kilted or not...it's just a part of how we have chosen to live, I think. I wear pants most of the time, but I wear a kilt on occasion. It is a choice I have made about how I will live my life. Others who wear kilts full time and those who do not wear one at all have made a choice as well.

[Ryan Ross]

I'm not a full time kilter, but I would say I am a heavy kilter.

A lifestyle choice? I'd say no. I wear the kilt the same way I wear a pair of shorts. I'd say that calling chronic kilt wearing a lifestyle choice is much like calling chronic ballcap wearing a lifestyle choice. It just isn't, in my opinion.

Do I give up hobbies for kilt wearing? No way. I don't know if I'd call martial arts just a "hobby" for me, but I never wear a kilt to train in. I practice traditional Japanese martial arts that often involve things like kicking, grappling, and breakfalls/rolling. A kilt would not work at all, while preforming such actions. In fact, those would probably be some of the worst things you could do while kilted. Personally, the idea of giving up martial arts for the sake of kilt wearing is one of the most ridiculous ideas I can think of.

Do I wear it to get attention? No. If anything, I sometimes decide not to wear it, just to avoid receiving extra attention (even the "positive" kind).

[Eujeankilt]

As a full-time kiltie, I 'd say yes, it's a lifestyle choice. I chose a kilted lifestyle. It hasn't changed how I live very much - maybe I have more confidence in myself now.

It has interfered with my motorcycle riding. I don't ride as much now. When I do, I wear pants or riding gear (bifurcated). Otherwise, I do everything kilted. I have made the kilt fit the situation, with the appropriate accessories

Do I do it for attention? To be honest, I think yes - a bit. I have had self-confidence issues in the past and wearing a kilt was a way to force the issue. I guess it was part of a mid-life course correction as well. I am conscious that it attracts more attention than someone wearing trousers. It's interesting to watch others reactions.

Dale

[GMan]

Knowing many of you are kilted full time, and I have some questions about this life style.

- Is this a life style choice?
- Do you give up a hobby, if it requires to wear pants? Or do you try to adopt the kilt into a hobby?
- Are you doing it for attention?

Life style choice perhaps yes, but I feel that what Derek stated, that it is part of me.

It probably has enhanced many of my hobbies, as I have adapted to the situation

Attention, not really, it is so much part of me now that I cannot imagine what my life would be like without wearing it. I know that robbing a bank while Kilted may be out of the question.