Hope for the Future

[Vince]

I was at a local supermarket the other day attired in my kilt as usual. At the end of one aisle was a man and his young son, probably about 4 or 5 years old. As I passed, I overheard the boy ask his father ‘What is that man wearing?” I was in a bit of hurry and did not stop to chat, but when I came by the same spot later I arrived just in time to hear the boy telling his father and mother “When I grow up, I’m going to get me a kilt!”

Now there is a lad with good taste!

[Kilted Taper]

Very nice! Good work.

[parpin]

Hi all,

I'm doing the same thing every weekends when I go kilted. The best feedback are from teenagers. One of them told me that he would have liked to be a scotman to wear a kilt.

An other told me that this cloth is beautiful mais expensive. I agreed on that point that a student can't affords to buy a kilt when they have bigger priorities like tuitions and related fees.

Very often I hear some whispers and whistling. i'm realy amused to see the faces of people looking at me at the shopping mall. In fact people doesn't care too mush about a kilted man. We are the habit to see women in hijab and men from India (Sikhs) wearing their turban so one more dressed differently doesn't make a difference anymore.

[Graham]

We are the habit to see women in hijab and men from India (Sikhs) wearing their turban so one more dressed differently doesn't make a difference anymore.

I agree!! if other folk from other lands can wear their traditional dress (even gaining the rights to do so in the workplace, why should it be so strange to wear a kilt and celebrate our Celtic/European roots??

[Andrew Green]

I agree with the idea that all people should be able to wear cultural attire, without repercussions for their actions.

The last highland games I went to, I saw a toddler in a kilt. Not that I am too partial to kids mind you, but ya gotta start 'em young and all.
At least that should be one more person who'll grow up without a negative opinion of the kilt.

[GMan]

One word:

SWEET

[switchblade5984]

cool! now if only he remembers that!

[Blu (Ontario)]

I've had similar experiences in stores... and with adults as well as kids. They remember.

It's lesson one in "thinking outside of the box"... and realizing that there's more interesting things in the world than what they've been told.

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[Vince]

I don't know what his father told him, but I can only assume that it was something positive.

[NewKilt]

I don't know what his father told him, but I can only assume that it was something positive.

It sure sounds like the youngter's father had positive comments about the kilt. The young man will remember it, and will be able to educate others when he hears a remark such as "that man is wearing a skirt."

About a week ago, I was walking past the playground at one of our parks, when a woman who was home schooling her son ask me if that was a kilt I was wearing. I replied that it was, and she asked if it was Irish. I replied yes (I was wearing my Ireland's National). She brought her son over to look at the kilt, and I pointed out the colors and explained that the kilt was in the colors of the Irish flag. I also told them that there are Scottish kilts, and the patterns in a kilt usually have some meaning. She told her son to remember this when they studied about Ireland. So here is one more young man that will most likely remember what a kilt is.

Darrell