Is there a suit forum where...?

**Monkey@Arms** · 12th October 07, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by ccga3359

Now that's just not nice. Not nice at all.

Originally Posted by ccga3359

I should've quoted Jake in another post and get me up to #2329, :crap:.

Aw, Grant. To quote Dtrain above, you need to "feel the love."

Hmm, maybe that's not the kind of love he had in mind.

**LordKiltClad** · 12th October 07, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by mkfarkus

While there are some eminent and respected members of Xmarks who scatter their pearls before us swine, in general everyone's contribution is welcome and of equal weight. I'm relatively new here myself and have felt welcomed and valued.

Have you ever SEEN a pearl that gets fully digested by a swine? It comes out not so shiny anymore.

**ccga3359** · 12th October 07, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by Monkey@Arms

Aw, Grant. To quote Dtrain above, you need to "feel the love."

Hmm, maybe that's not the kind of love he had in mind.

Okay jake you're back in the good books. Yippee post #2332. Don't I win a free kilt at 2500?

**Ozman1944** · 12th October 07, 05:22 PM

Plus of course we're all a little bit weird....(You say a GENUINE plastic Xmarks kilt pin 8 ct gold plated? - I thought it might be just dipped in Elmer's glue & sprinkled with glitter) WOW! I can't wait! Now we all have something to live for!

**ccga3359** · 12th October 07, 05:51 PM

Suit forum. So yes there is. I don't know what posts are on there as I'm not a member of it and will not as I'm hanging by a thread here.

Get it? Hanging by a thread!

**Roan Carter** · 12th October 07, 09:26 PM

Lol, I have wondered the same thing.

I've posted one or two posts like that, probably. I think. At this point, after wearing the kilt almost daily for like a year, it's become a regular thing that someone always says something. It's usually fun.

Those kinds of posts do a great job of showing newbies what wearing a kilt will be like. They really provide a candid, frank snapshot.

**Howard Clark** · 13th October 07, 05:46 AM

You know guys I used to think that the sword world was strange, and I fit right in. Now I find this place, even stranger, and I still fit right in. You do have to be rather independent minded to wear a kilt in the US, particularly in the less populous parts of it.

I find it a fascinating addition to my continual observations of human behaviour. In Iowa, most of the time, noone says anything. When they do say something about it, mostly the comments are positive. Many men, however, are so busy trying not to look at you, and pretending not to notice that it can be very amusing at times. It would appear that many men think of it as a skirt, whether traditional kilt or not, and automatically assume that the wearer is gay. I find that immensly amusing as well, and have occasionally aided that misconception along just because of the amusement factor.

Mostly how people react seems to depend on you, the kiltie, and how you bear yourself in public.

And not everyone was blessed with the self confidence that many of us seem to have in overwhelming abundance. It can be cultivated, however, and this forum, and those kind of threads help with that, in my opinion.

I can see how it would be hard to relate to that if you had been wearing a kilt since childhood though. I'm hoping that my kids will have that same difficulty.

**Jerry** · 13th October 07, 08:18 PM

I haven't been wearing kilts all that long, and I don't wear them out everywhere I go. So, any comments are both new and interesting to me. For that reason, I've posted a couple (exactly two) experiences with comments. Otherwise, wearing my kilts out to eat and such has been a mostly non-event. The closest I've come to a negative comment so far was a week or two ago, when I stopped to fill up with gas on the way home from The Williamsburg Scottish Festival. A really "redneck looking" guy walked past me, did a double take and walked off shaking his head. I had to laugh about that one.