When the rubber meets the road

[Scott Gilmore]

Now... don't take this the wrong way but we're on page six of this thread, at some point you need to decide if this is something you want to do or not.

Can't help wonder if what's really going on here has nothing to do with the kilt and everything to do with the attention this is getting.

Wear the ferkin' kilt already. Sheesh!

Regards,
Scott Gilmore

[pbpersson]

Now... don't take this the wrong way but we're on page six of this thread, at some point you need to decide if this is something you want to do or not.

Best of luck!

Well...it is very comfortable and it is very fun.....

I just need to relax and perhaps the weekend will help.

I will go to a strange place this evening and see strange people on the streets and get lost in a violent thunderstorm with flooding rains. Certainly that will help me get used to wearing a kilt. It's an "artsy-trendy" part of town where they should be used to seeing kilts.

[motorman4life]

I have to admit, I never had any problem wearing a kilt around strangers, but I was very self-conscious around people I had known for a long time. It is like you know that they are re-evaluating you or something. I had many ask me some of the stranges questions. It was like they were asking themselves, "How did I miss this?"

I just told them it was comforable and they should try it. Most of the women said they wished their men would wear one. Most of the men were afraid their women would want them to wear one!

Read my sig below... if anyone asks you why you have a kilt on or makes a snide comment, tell them it is Kilt Day and send them to KiltDay.com. Easy solution and that is why I created it... for guys like you.

"***...BACK OFF DUDE, IT'S FREAKIN' KILT DAY!!!"

I get e-mail most every day from people that have used my site to deflect uncomfortable questions. You need to have the confidence to not follow the pack and do your own thing... even if it happens to be "the thing" of 1000's of other self-confident kilt-wearing guys... it's still your choice and you have to have the balls to pull it off. If you LOOK self-conscious, you will be a target. If you carry yourself like Sean Connery, you will be unstoppable!

[pbpersson]

Read my sig below... if anyone asks you why you have a kilt on or makes a snide comment, tell them it is Kilt Day and send them to KiltDay.com. Easy solution and that is why I created it... for guys like you.

So YOU are the person who created that??

I found that yesterday, when I was thinking about doing my first public appearance in a kilt. I was so surprised that it just happened to be kilt day - the first day I was going to wear it in public.

However, then I did more Google searching and found old comments from people saying, "Did you know that today was Kilt Day?" and they all had different dates so I figured it out. But I think it's a great idea, I really do.

I spent an entire hour walking from one end to the other of Old Scottsdale tonight SEVERAL TIMES in broad daylight until my feet fell like they were going to fall off. People said hello and asked how I was doing, one lady stopped me and asked if I knew where to find a certain restaurant (I didn't) but not a single person said anything about my new kilt! :confused:

[NewKilt]

I spent an entire hour walking from one end to the other of Old Scottsdale tonight SEVERAL TIMES in broad daylight until my feet fell like they were going to fall off. People said hello and asked how I was doing, one lady stopped me and asked if I knew where to find a certain restaurant (I didn't) but not a single person said anything about my new kilt! :confused:

Good for you! You've made some real progress. Not bad at all is it? Now the more you wear it, the more confident you will become.

I'm wearing a Black UK Mocker today with a white polo, white crew socks, and white sneakers. The Mocker is the most skirt-like in appearance of the UK's. I'll be at Walmart, the mall, and taking a daily walk in one of our parks. I have absolutely no reservations about appearing in public in this attire. You'll get there too.

Darrell

[Scott Gilmore]

I spent an entire hour walking from one end to the other of Old Scottsdale tonight SEVERAL TIMES in broad daylight until my feet fell like they were going to fall off. People said hello and asked how I was doing, one lady stopped me and asked if I knew where to find a certain restaurant (I didn't) but not a single person said anything about my new kilt!

Hallelujah! Finally! Attaboy pb, good on ya. Congratulations. Now relax and enjoy being kilted.

Regards,
Scott Gilmore

[pbpersson]

Today I went to a shopping mall and walked from one end of the mall to the other in my kilt. People looked at me, but no one said anything. I heard some laughter behind me, but that could have been anything....

Then I went to a PetsMART to buy some cat food for my boys....had I returned home empty-handed I would have had a real riot on my hands.

Then I went to a crowded grocery store to buy a few things....

I have yet to have a single person comment on my kilt or say anything. :confused:

I guess it's the 21st century and anything goes. In the line in front of me at the grocery store were two guys doing their grocery shopping together with matching earings...

[Southern Breeze]

Congratulations on a day kilted! As you're finding out 99.999% of the problem is in your own head. Just relax and enjoy yourself.

[Kilted_John]

Today I went to a shopping mall and walked from one end of the mall to the other in my kilt. People looked at me, but no one said anything. I heard some laughter behind me, but that could have been anything....

Then I went to a PetsMART to buy some cat food for my boys....had I returned home empty-handed I would have had a real riot on my hands.

Then I went to a crowded grocery store to buy a few things....

I have yet to have a single person comment on my kilt or say anything.

I guess it's the 21st century and anything goes. In the line in front of me at the grocery store were two guys doing their grocery shopping together with matching earings...

Fixed...

Anyway, it sounds like you're slowly coming out of your fear of being yourself... I'd try to relax a bit more. Next step is to act normally and not try to run and hide everytime you're kilted. Just begin to think you're dressed normally. Once that happens, no one will notice. The problem is that when you're acting strangely, you're drawing attention to yourself. If you act like nothing's wrong and that you're normally dressed this way, no one will care. Let your guard down... Just go out to some restaurant that has an outdoor seating area, order something to eat and some beverage, sit down and enjoy things.

-J

[pbpersson]

Well...I have NOT been doing my nightly strolls since Saturday night because I killed my body on the weekend but I thought tonight I would go for a 30-minute walk....at 9:30 at night. No, I am not ashamed of my kilt and trying to hide it, but at that time of the night here it is still over 100 degrees outside (or 37.8 for you Celsius people).

I was trying to walk through shopping malls right by the stores so I could be seen by the late night shoppers coming out with their packages. I also had to cross a very busy street twice and several motorists saw me.

As I was walking along in the shopping center I came upon a collection of people conversing in an outdoor patio of some Seattle Coffee place. There was no place else to walk so I had to sort of walk right through them with the hem of my kilt almost brushing against the one guy's arm. As I approached, all conversation abruptly halted and it stayed silent until well after I had passed. In the meantime, I'm thinking, "You're outside a place with the word Seattle in it, so you know all about these kilts, right??"

Then I crossed the street and walked through another parking lot. One car pulled into the lot and temporarily parked in a spot so they could watch me walk past, then they went onto the store farther down where they wanted to shop.

There was ALL SORTS of activity - a crowd up ahead and it turned out I was walking right into a crowd of people at an outside Sushi place combined with a Theatre. This is an area I had not walked through before and I was unprepared for this - it felt like a shopping mall. I took a deep breath and kept walking my "confident walk". I met two teenagers coming my way and the one said, "Nice kilt!" and I smiled and thanked him.

Then a car pulled into the parking lot and there was all sorts of shouting and I could make out something about "the guy in the kilt" and I couldn't quite make it out but they were waving the hands with the two outer fingers up in the air which I figured was a good thing - then they yelled something else and it turned out they had just come from the "Tilted Kilt Bar and Restaurant" in Tempe.

So....it seems to me I must be living in an "enlightened" area and it makes me quite happy. It was a good walk.