Unless maybe they were these guys, who make your average wannabe Scotsman look like a right ponce:
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… I’ve seen these busking in Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. Proper fucking scary they were too.
I’ve just washed my kilt, and now I can’t do a fling with it.
This is Beaver County Pennsylvania, not Glasgow. We don’t even have buskers here, really, let alone any who look like that. What we do have are disproportionately high rates of poverty, drug abuse, and crime. This is not an environment where prancing around in a kilt , especially if you are in an area where you are not the right color, will lead to compliments.
Woman. I like kilts. I vote, “Yes. Please.”
I think they are fine if you are
(a) Scottish. As in properly Scottish, not just having a remote Scottish great grandparent, and
(b) at a wedding, or on parade for a Scottish regiment, or at a Scotland International rugby match or busking in Edinburgh to take money off the foreign tourists.
Otherwise, it looks affected and attention seeking.
I’ve seen plenty of kilts (RenFaire and SF/F Con veteran, my late brother in law was in at least three different pipe bands) and they are still weird. But more importantly to my feeling of men in kilts, more than half the time (outside of pipe bands) they are worn by guys who give off a creepy vibe and don’t understand boundaries.
I believe that’s Clanadonia, though I always get them confused with Saor Patrol. Tartanic’s costumes are much more colorful.
I’m in favor of men with knees.
One of the joys of a job based in Glasgow, with a mostly-female team and a couple of guys who had no problem being surrounded by women, was going downtown on Big Game Days “to watch people go by”.
women may like them, but I think most guys would view you like this.
You might as well wear your Star Wars PJs in public. I’m pretty tolerant of a wide variety of things, including piercings, tattoos, and even goatees. I have a prejudice against kilts that defies explanation, however. Sorry.
Not so different from Glasgow then.
Except for the kilts. Here we favor meth-head chic.
Oh, please - assuming the modern “proper” highland outfit is historically accurate is about the same as assuming the average workman or farmer in 1920 wore a tuxedo every day. Back in the day, a lot of authentic highlanders probably wore whatever footgear they could get, which may well have meant going barefoot for some of the poorest. These days it’s considered a formal dress, or uniform, or costume which is different than everyday attire.
Anyhow - like a man in a kilt if he’s comfortable wearing it and knows how sit properly/politely in it. Always better if the man in the kilt is likeable in his own right. For the record, I married a man who played bagpipes professionally so I got to see him in kilt a lot. In fact, he wore one to our wedding. So make of that what you will.
I’m glad we have you to explain these things, Broomstick.
I think they look cool and would like to see more of them. Not in an “it’s an immediate turn-on” kind of way, but just because they are unique. (although if more men wore them, they wouldn’t be as unique. hmmm…)
I find men in kilts more attractive. I also think they can’t go wrong with a sarong.
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The wife seem to like it when I wear a kikoi, which is as often as I can in summer.
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20+ Ren Faire veteran (working not just going) here. I roll my eyes hard when I see a guy in a kilt outside of Faire - IME the guys who do it are just…icky. There’s a time and a place for costuming, and wearing it outside of that time & place is a sign that this person doesn’t know or doesn’t pay attention to social cues. Including the all-important “Back off, buddy, you’re in my space and I’m really not interested” cue.
Also, utilikilts are ugly as sin. A proper 9-yard kilt can be beautiful - again, worn in the proper context - but utilikilts are just hideous.
It doesn’t do anything for me. Outside of contexts where lots of people are wearing kilts, it seems pretty silly. Kind of like a woman wearing fairy wings.
Really, any ethnic wear you didn’t grow up with is going to be a bit of a stretch. I have a lovely collection of African clothing and Chinese qipaos, but they are strictly for themed events these days.
That said, I do like the idea of men having more options when it comes to clothing, so I won’t be entirely against them.
My mother was a piper. A very good one. I grew up attending all kinds of Celtic/Gaelic events. Men in kilts look perfectly normal to me. My last two employers have been Canadian-owned international companies, both with facilities in Scotland. I’ve worked with folks who wore kilts as everyday office apparel. I think that once one becomes accustomed to the novelty of seeing them, they are quite appropriate. Most of the kilt-wearers I’ve known have been fiercely serious people with great dignity. There is nothing chuckle-worthy about a fiercely serious man wearing a kilt.
We have a group of guys at work who wear their kilts about once a month or so. No opinion really except that if you do spend hundreds of dollars on a proper kilt, PLEASE do not pair it with a Hot Topic t-shirt. Really. No.