Yummy. Very.
Think my boyfriend will be hurt if I get that photo enlarged and put it up in the bedroom?
No, actually Lyon College in Batesville, AR. I doubt any one here has heard of it. The bagpipe team is actually its claim to fame, and it once made a list of the top 10 small liberal arts schools or something or other…
Aye!
“Just roll some r’s in me ears, lad…
Roll some r’s in me ears.
Give me a beer and a lecherous leer
And roll some r’s in me ear.” – author unknown
I have seen a photograph of Elizabeth II seated at the bottom of some expansive steps, surrounded by a Scottish guard of some sort. The gentleman seated two or three spaces away from her will keep that particular photograph from being on display in the palace. 'Twas but a little breeze I suppose. I’m sorry that I can’t reproduce it here. I’m not certain that I would be allowed to anyway.
That brings a whole new meaning to “pulling off a kilt.” Come on, girls! We’ve got one cornered! Lord, tell me he’s not a Campbell…
Oops! Sorry, WhyNot!
False alarm. She’s a girlie.
I forgot.
Sigh. Not true. Whilst the Scots in ages past did not wear what we would call “underwear” they often wore a shirt with very long tails,which were tucked up into a sort of breechclout.
And- how is a kilt sexier than shorts? Both show the same “great calves”. 
“Utilikilts” are very overpriced, note.
Its easier to see up a kilt than it is up the leg hole of shorts 
although I’ve gotten an eyeful that way as well, if the guy was wearing boxer under the shorts.
Remind me to keep you and 'im indoors apart if he ever decides to wear a kilt again!
I’m definitely pro-kilt but sadly he refuses to wear one, much to my disappointment. I still think he’d look good in one but he’s just been protesting for so many years, I’ve all but given up.
Add me to the pro-kilt brigade.
I like Scottish-style tartan kilts, especially when worn with a short black jacket, but what I *really *like is the “punk kilt” look–a guy in a tight black t-shirt (punk or industrial band logo optional but definitely adding to the effect), a black or gray Utilikilt, and combat boots. Mmm…yummy. 
I keep trying to get the spouse to wear a Utilikilt (we go to Gen Con every year and the UK folks show up with a whole passel o’ cool kilts) but he won’t–he doesn’t think he looks good in anything that shows his knees. But the one time I convinced him to try on mine (along with tight t-shirt, although sans combat boots) I thought he looked quite nice.
I had to think about this for a sec, but I think I got it, or at least part of it.
A kilt is saying “fuck off” to social conventions around dress - but it also honors a rather old convention ('though not as old as most people think) itself. Both ties to the past and “fuck off” to the present are sexy in a man - he’s got his own mind and he’s not afraid of what others think, but he cares about carrying on that line, as well.
Plus, y’know, fabric drapes in pretty ways around the pelvic bones and hips when it’s not restrained between the legs. Why is a miniskirt sexier then shorts on women?
Confused? Indeed you are! 
A man in a kilt looks hot. I wish mine would indulge (he has the pedigree, just not the desire). My brother’s isn’t fitting him anymore, but when he wore it to our wedding he had more eyes on him than I did! 
And his HS & college graduations were great, too- there wasn’t another guy there who looked that good.
And Ewan McGregor slays in a kilt. But no love for Sean ?
I like 'em. They’re comfortable. The only problem is that they do tend to be a bit warm sometimes if you go traditional and wear wool.
I wore one for the first time for a Renaissance Faire years and years ago. I bought 7 yards of tartan fabric that was as close to my great-grandmother’s clan as I could find, and found out how to pleat it and belt it. The old-style great kilts are pretty darn nifty. You’ve got the top part (the bit that looks like a sash but in the old one-piece ones is integral with the skirt) that can be pulled over your head as a cloak or wrapped around you if it gets cold. You’ve got the tails that are normally twisted and tucked into your belt that you can arrange in various ways to make pockets. You could hide half an armory under the thing. And if the built-in easy access isn’t enough, the whole ensemble comes off quickly, just remove the belt.
You do get attention from women when you’re wearing one, I found. One incident that’s seared into my memory is the time a young lady at the Arizona Renaissance Festival asked if I was wearing it “properly”. I invited her to see for herself, so she started slowly running her hand up my leg . . . I think she was playing chicken and expected me to swerve first, but she finally reached a level that made her snatch her hand back from under my kilt, look away, blush, and stammer. I made things worse by saying, “I think what you were looking for was a little to the left.” She happened to be a friend of my buddy, J, who I was visiting in Phoenix. He congratulated me when he said that he’d never actually seen her flustered before.
Good times, good times. 
I’ll dissent. I’m talking about the U.S. only, I have no idea about kilts in Scotland.
But horrible. Beyond “bad style.” Well into “bad costume and it’s not even halloween, what the fuck is wrong with you.” Sorry.
So true. (That’s my husband getting felt up at a NYC Dopefest a few years ago.)
I couldn’t let this thread sink without a link to the following: Kilt Lifting Kit.
(note for the humorless-I don’t think anyone is suggesting you actually go around doing this without permission! And even if they are, it’s still pretty funny as satire)
That photo has totally made my day. I like her hands-on-approach to the situation.
OK, for all you womenfolk who like the guys-in-kilts thing, a question:
How about guys in skirts? I don’t mean “in drag” with accoutrements and phony appendages and whatnot to make them appear female, but wearing the garment “skirt”, of which a kilt is for all practical purposes an example, yet without the historical precedent of manly Scotsmen wearing them & whatnot?
Guys in skirts (e.g, a solid-color twill wraparound): braver than wearing a kilt, or more clownish for being gal-clothing (whereas a kilt is guy-clothing)? The view: comparable, or lacking a certain je ne sais quois?
A kilt is not a skirt, so let’s leave that out for the moment. 
I have seen guys look very sexy in a sarong, but it REALLY has to be the right guy (and it’s not always who you would imagine- Val Kilmer looks great in one, but Pierce Brosnan doesn’t- too skinny).
But a regular old skirt? Nope, won’t wash. Even if he’s hot.
I go to a lot of neopagan festivals, where dress is completely up to interpretation. Many of the men wear skirts, especially those broomstick hippie skirts (they pack really well in backpacks, what can I say? There’s a reason they’re the uniform of the hippie chick!) So I see a lot of men in skirts in judgment free environments, but I have to say kilts are sexier. It’s the shape. The pleats and the length make the hips look narrow and the butt look pleasantly rounded, no matter what’s really under there. The pleats hide any too-womanly bulging and the weight of the kilt smooths out a whole lot of flabby flaws. Or, if your body flaws tend to the other extreme, then pleating 9 friggin’ yards of wool around your legs gives you the girth and substance your scrawny chicken thighs lack. A kilt is a damn good equalizer.
While there are some men who look great in other styles of skirt, it’s a lot less universal. Some look too tall and skinny and gangly, others have beer guts hanging over the top. Length can be iffy, as generally the skirts in question are made to be mid-calf or ankle on women, and end up hitting right below the knee on men or right in the fat-calf danger zone (which women know to avoid, but no one sent men the memo.)
I have seen a few sexy goth guys in the city wearing floor length black canvas skirts, but they’re basically just really long utilikilts in shape.
So it’s possible, but not as risk-free. Just like some skirts are great on some women, but only the kilt-like schoolgirl skirt looks some level of sexy on every woman, no matter what her body shape or size.
To quote a good friend of mine: “I’m not wearing any pants”
They look alright on a Scot at a ceilidh, but anyone wearing them in any other circumstance makes me think they’re either alcoholic or on their way downtown to busk with their bagpipes (which is probably correct if you see an old man walking around Edinburgh with his highland dress on).