"No Thanks"?

[Mikilt]

Many have resisted the kilt only to try it and discover its comfort, wearability and style. Maybe you are one of these people, maybe you are someone who introduced another to the kilt.
But have you ever heard of someone getting a good-fitting kilt and really breaking it in only to say, "No thanks, I prefer trousers"?
It's unfathomable to me that anyone would feel this way, but I thought I'd check with the rabble and see if any of you have encountered this.

[Bugbear]

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[YoungMan]

At the risk of making myself unpopular, I will say that in some situations I prefer pants/shorts. The more casual the activity the more I would favor bifurcation. I grew up in farm country, and there's just no competiting with good carhartts for protection and durability. I find kilts too exposing in rough and tumble situations. (Probably why you don't see them in combat anymore.) I tried being outdoorsy in kilts and just too often found myself thinking pants would be a lot easier.

However, as a rower and runner and owner of beefy quads, I will say I love the openness of the kilt in many respects. Often at work I wish I was kilted bc trousers tend to kill my Hardy boys, and that's no mystery.

[BoldHighlander]

At the risk of making myself unpopular, I will say that in some situations I prefer pants/shorts. The more casual the activity the more I would favor bifurcation. I grew up in farm country, and there's just no competiting with good carhartts for protection and durability. I find kilts too exposing in rough and tumble situations. (Probably why you don't see them in combat anymore.) I tried being outdoorsy in kilts and just too often found myself thinking pants would be a lot easier.

I would agree that there are times that wearing pants/jeans are more pratical (or make more sense), like when I was working a friends green broke gelding & later got tossed head over heels from the back of that cayuse in the pasture!

[Mikilt]

I completely agree that we all may feel that there are some times when trousers are preferable to the kilt. I am interested to know if you know of anyone who has rejected the kilt outright after giving it a fair try.

[Bugbear]

I completely agree that we all may feel that there are some times when trousers are preferable to the kilt. I am interested to know if you know of anyone who has rejected the kilt outright after giving it a fair try.

Yes, Mikilt, I have stopped wearing the kilt, and that was after a few years. I have also let go of tartan; that one was painful.

It is not a point of view I wish to tell everyone else they should have; please don't take it that way.

[Nighthawk]

I completely agree that we all may feel that there are some times when trousers are preferable to the kilt. I am interested to know if you know of anyone who has rejected the kilt outright after giving it a fair try.

Fair try? No. My brother wore a kilt for my wedding- grudgingly. He has refused to ever wear one again. That's the closest I've come to someone trying it and outright not liking. My best friend, on the other hand, loves his Anderson tartan kilt.

[Oddern]

A friend of mine tried the kilt once and kindly said, no thanks never again. This was in the autum, outside, a bit cold, and he has a condition with his legs where he is very sensetive to cold weather. Not a good match.
Skål!

[Frank McGrath]

I live in an area where the predominant species is inbred moron. I rarely wear the kilt in county. I prefer to wear it where people actually have a process of thought. I have learned this through trial and error.

[mull]

While I certainly would not say "No thanks", I have found the kilt to be less comfortable than I had origanally expected. I attribute this to the fact that I do not have a bespoke kilt, and both kilts I have seem to want to slide down as I wear them.

Once they start to reach my knee I become frustrated with pulling them back up. Added to that is the fact that I am used to wearing pants with a low waist, so pulling the top of a slightly too long kilt up to my ribbs seems awkward.

When I wear a sweater, I use suspenders to hold the kilt up and it works better, but then I cannot take off the sweater if I get hot.

I guess the answer is to spring for a properly fitted kilt.