I have plenty of occasions to wear my kilt, but it's the TSA moments I really savor.

I promise I'm not the underwear bomber. Go ahead and check.

/Yes, I really do this
//If it's going to be uncomfortable for me, it's going to be uncomfortable for them.
/Slashies always opt out.

don't know where ye been, lad, but i can see ye won first place

\please don't wear this to prom

tadaaaa

No true Scotsman would stand for this.

The difference between a kilt and a skirt? Very simple. If the guy weaing it looks like he would kick your ass for calling it a skirt--it's a KILT.

Ghastly: BTW, for those out there wondering what it's like to wear a kilt out for a night on the town, be prepared to have women constantly trying to check if you're wearing anything under it. I wear my kilts a lot when I'm out doing shows and when I come off stage during my break there's almost certain to be one or who women who either reach up my kilt and grab my ass, or lift up my kilt.

For some reason many women seem to think guys in kilts are fair game for grabbing/flashing.

The last time the hubby wore his kilt out in the public, he was poked and prodded more by the guys than the ladies. It entertained me. Though if there's older women out, beware. They're crafty. At my mum's wedding, most of her friends wore mirrors on their shoes.

One of the early dates with my husband was to the irish fest here. He tried on a utilikilt over his pants. When he decided to buy, the salesman convinced him (loudly) to just take off his pants. By the time he did, there was a crowd waving dollar bills (one dude had a $20) and I was raising my beer yelling "That's my boyfriend, it only takes half a beer to get him out of his pants!"

He wore a formal kilt (Murray) at our wedding.

This is not my husband, but he is wearing a kilt.



I love kilt threads!

Julie Cochrane: I just checked and a kilt from my clan runs nearly 400 pounds.

I heard haggis goes straight to the hips and butt, but that's crazy.

So... a kilt is just an anal bum cover...

He should have opted for full battle dress and worn the full length evening gown covered in sequins.

Mock26: h0tsauce: Mock26: [img.photobucket.com "kilt with pockets=skirt" 555x606]

I look at it like this, just because you can put pockets on something does not mean you should. Imagine a woman's formal evening gown with a few oversized cargo pockets on it. Would look pretty ridiculous, right? That is how I view the utilikilt.

I'm sorry, I'm no good at this. I mean, I tried, I really did. You posted an opinion contrary to mine on the internet, and I'm pretty sure that by this point I'm supposed to be wishing defilement and death on your mother or something. But whatever, you not liking Utilikilts doesn't affect how much I and my significant other like it. I do think your comparison is kind of apples to oranges though.
The Utilikilt isn't a formal garment with cargo pockets added on; it's a skirt designed for men who weren't interested in cross-dressing but did want to be comfortable. Which had been me ever since I was an exchange student to southeast Asia and discovered the sarong. The guy who created it called it a kilt just as shorthand for "not cross-dressing" (not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just that a Utilikilt is generally a really bad way to go about it). Then people came along and said things like "I'd buy one, but it needs pleats" and "I'd buy one, but it's supposed to wrap around you, not be pulled on and zipped up like pants." So he made changes to it for the sake of popular appeal.

So okay, a kilt with pockets is a skirt. And I'm a guy in a skirt that somehow manages to appeal to women anyway. Go figure.

Another way you could look at it, if you chose: Jeans would look silly with a tuxedo jacket too, but it doesn't make them somehow worse than tuxedo slacks. It just makes them more suited to informal situations.

/Also, your mother's a whore.

When I was a kid, Star Trek taught me that wearing a kilt was perfectly acceptable for formal occasions.



/That having been said, I'm uncomfortable in shorts, so I doubt I'd ever wear one, even though I'm descended from Glaswegians.

And I bet subby believes the guy who played Doogie Howser was really a brilliant physician.

I'm sorry, there is nothing sexier than a man in a kilt playing the bagpipes on the street corner at 2:30 in the morning with what appear to be two lemmings in his unders.

I'm sorry.

How can you tell what clan a Scot belongs to?

You look under his kilt, and if he's got a quarter-pounder, he's a MacDonald.

craxyd: Lady Beryl Ersatz-Wendigo: Tsk, I came in here to see the "Song of my People" guy . . .


Will this do?

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Put a Tam o' Shanter on that thing and I'll take it.

Lady Beryl Ersatz-Wendigo: Tsk, I came in here to see the "Song of my People" guy . . .


Will this do?

impaler: Oh, and did I mention, when the school told Mr. Carruba he could not wear his kilt, they said, they "want to teach the men to dress like men." I don't take offense easily, but this one insults me, the Scottish community here in St. Louis and an entire nation back across the Pond.

Didn't they just admit they're discriminating based on gender?



Yeah, take off those lady clothes and get into your TIGHTS!!!

Bad_Seed: Julie Cochrane: This school might have had an easier time of it if they'd made the kid do a report with a family tree showing which clan he was in, what its tartan was, and then provide the documentation that the kilt was an actual, authentic kilt in his clan's actual tartan. "You can wear this more expensive formal wear at your own expense if you're actually willing to go to all the expense and trouble. Or you can rent a tux like the other kids if you're not."

Or they could just take his word for it. If you show up at a formal even wearing your kilt, they generally won't make you show papers to prove that you are a true Scotsman.

Tartans spelled backwards is SATAN!

trews.

Canton: And let's not forget...

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I'm sure he is wearing pants under there, but a cassock does have a skirt, so technically...

I don't know about that. Look at that smile.

I'd hate to see if it were some Angry Samoans in Lava-lavas

And then there's United States Marine 1st Sgt Dwayne Farr Link I dare anyone to challenge his manhood

I guess they'd have a problem with these sissies, too.

Beaver1224: Och! Don't piss off the Scots!

They're just afraid he'll wear the appropriate undergarments.


The wife's lipstick?

Why won't they let me go topless? They're discriminating against African culture!

Canton: Y'know, if he can pull off a kilt (not literally, I'm sure stripping is out of the question), more power to him. Traditional Scottish garb? Awesome! Just so long as he leaves his sgian-dubh at home...

Deal's off, sassenach.