Knowing what we all know now ...

[Blu (Ontario)]

... I think most teenagers are desperately concerned how they appear to their peers... If sites like this had existed then (1970s/80s), it might had pushed me to wear a kilt more often. It would have given me some external validation that it was OK to wear them often....

I think this nails it on the head.

Had I the money and the knowledge I have tody, I most certainly would have been inclined to at least try it. It would have been a "peer pressure VS. self confidence VS. attracting the girls" situation.

It's tough to say which one would have won.

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[turpin]

....I would have never had the nerve to wear the kilt in high school...all credit to the guys who do it now..they have thicker skin than I had back then.

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AA

It's my high-school-aged son who inspired me (51 now) to wear the kilt (I took delivery, had to return it, still waiting - that's for another post). He became enthused about his Scottish connections, bought a cheapie and started wearing it to school as a sophmore (he just graduated). He's a relatively slight kid, 5'-7", 130-ish. Yet it was the confidence with which he wore it that carried it off, to the point where, after sustaining the expected hoots from classmates, even the football players (american football) made admiring remarks about his "big stones". His grandmother and I bought him a woolen kilt in the modern Gordon. Since all this started he has organized a celtic contemporary band. They play local gigs in north shore Chicago and two of them are ususally kilted on-stage. I'm hoping he can come to atlanta for the Stone Mountain Games and a little father-son kilt bonding.