Praise for Utilikilt!

I am predicting that within the next ten years men in kilts will be as common as men in jeans. Its radical now and definetly gets some raised eyebrows (especially here in the south) but the fact is its a practical and comfortable garment and its catching on quick. I think it isn't gonna take too long before its out of the bizzarre fad stage and into the norm.
 
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I'm sure you look great in a kilt ... don't let Mutt screw with you, he's all hot air!!! :D

No, but seriously ... I lived in Aberdeen Scotland for 4 years, much respect to any man who can pull off a kilt in 20 degree weather!
 
tonyccw said:
When a Scottish guy wear his Tartan's it's a kilt. When anyone else wears a UtiliKilt, it's still a kilt. Your logic is flawed. If we use the example of a Malay wear a sarong, it's EDC, but it's not OK for non-male Malay's to wear a sarong?
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You got it. Remember what Cassius Clay said when he told everyone he was Mohammad Ali? "I'm the champ. I don't have to be who you want me to be. I can be who I want to be."

I worked with a man whose father was Scot and mother was Jewish. After his parents split up, he got more interested in the Jewish, and became very observant. He was still a Scot. In this crowded and tangled culture -- not just the US, the world -- "blood lines" are so tangled, anyone can be who he wants to be, and anyone can learn from any culture he likes.
 
MelancholyMutt said:
I'll still laugh at you, as will a thousand other New Yorkers...
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Yeah I know, it'll be the laughter behind my back. The world is always gonna be full of ignorant idiots like you. Which reminds me, my invitation is now extended to include you laughing in my face.... :p

But for every couple of guys that laughed, I get compliments from the lovely ladies of NYC. I must handed out several hundred UtiliKilt business cards since I started wearing it two years ago.
 
why is it you and your crew at the other forum always revert to threats of violence?

You got way too much to lose to put up your fists... Why are you acting like you're a hardcore street thug? You're just a cokebottled balding asian guy just like me, except I'm not balding.
 
and we all know that the ppl you gave those cards to were all female... here's a suggestion: they're all wondering where you got your dress.
 
The G&G subforum is usually very mellow. But we've had several kilt threads in the past, and they all seem to end in a pissing contest. I can't figure out what it is about this topic that brings out the hecklers. It's a piece of clothing, and one that looks fairly practical. I remember in an earlier thread that someone mentioned he went deer hunting in his kilt. If it works for you, go for it. If you don't like the topic, you're free to go elsewhere. There are more appropriate places for baiting people.
 
We are all citizens of Earth. Some of us are a little more parochial than others. Some revel in exploring the various styles of dress, food, or language, available to our species, while others feel more comfortable with the familiar.

Yes, some of the less adventurous do snicker behind my back. I’ve grown to enjoy it.

I wore my utilikilt a lot in China last summer. If they are unusual in the US, they are truly unusual in China. Here is a picture taken last summer at Badaling, PRC. The utilikilt was a great icebreaker. I had a lot of fun with the kids I met. We had sprint races up the great wall and took a lot of pictures together. They had never seen a “Yang gui zi” in a skirt before. One little girl asked her mother “Why is that man wearing a dress?” Numerous young women wanted pictures too.

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I suspect the women aren’t attracted to the kilts as much as the attitude of willingness to explore, and your reluctance to be bound by the parochial mores of some of your contemporaries. I didn’t have my skirt, but was wearing my purse in the shot below. (Taken by my wife.) The women are tourists who just wanted a photo. They are “nice girls” who were in from the country vacationing in Beijing. I find the same type of reaction from women in the USA. I’ve been approached several times by US ladies inquiring as to what I was wearing under the kilt. Some of the US women had bold suggestions as to how they could find out.

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I was searched at a government checkpoint below Tian An Men while wearing my utilikilt. I was going up to the famous gate of the forbidden city where Chairman Mao used to address the masses in Tian An Men square below, and I didn’t know there was a security checkpoint. I was carrying a lockblade SAK. Of course, the studs in the utilikilt set of the metal detectors. The security personnel confiscated a plastic bottle full of water I was carrying in one of the cargo pockets but they didn’t find the SAK. I guess there are other advantages to wearing unconventional garments.

PS. Lest my name excuse me for wearing Scottish garments, it should be known that I very much like the sarong in tropical climes.
 
I have a friend who wears a utili-kilt, as well as more traditional kilts under certain situations (SCA). He loves it.

After seeing some of the respnses in this thread (as well as others), I have to sit back and wonder who the real trolls are that frequent these forums. :rolleyes:

Paul
 
no one's baiting anyone...
All my comments start out tongue in cheek with humor involved... there's nothing wrong with crossdressing or wearing kilts. If you want to, wear it, If we want to, we'll laugh... It was tony who started with the defensive stuff and threats.
 
tarsier said:
I remember in an earlier thread that someone mentioned he went deer hunting in his kilt.
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That was me. It was up in Schoharie County NY, which is very very conserative. I got better reception there than what Mutt and VampyreWolf is showing.
 
Off topic though Howard,
I'm thinking about taking a cross country ride through China along the Great Wall on a Chang Jiang Motorcycle with Sidecar. Did you go with a tour group or was this just you and your better half?
 
MelancholyMutt said:
why is it you and your crew at the other forum always revert to threats of violence?

You got way too much to lose to put up your fists... Why are you acting like you're a hardcore street thug? You're just a cokebottled balding asian guy just like me, except I'm not balding.
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Mutt: you just don't get it. All I'm asking is a face to face and to see if you are willing to in real life what you've posted here. You've posted many times about how you hated mall ninja's, yet you act just like one here. In the span of three days, you've called me "scum" (in another thread) and accused me, and all the other people that enjoy wearing a UK, a sexual deviant. What I am about it not letting ignoramous like you get away with thinking it's OK to call names, when there is absolutely no reason to do so. Well, I'm a little tired of being call names by you and just want you to step up and back up your words. We could have it out with fists, or we could have a simple conversation. I'm just waiting for you to accept my invite to do so. It's not about me being a hard core street thug (although in my past I was, but that's another story), I do see that's all you understand what someone must be when they refuse to back down.

So what if I'm balding, I'm 40 years old, it's in my genes. Even Rogaine ain't gonna help that.

So, let me see if I can at least put the cross-dressing issue to rest:

The UK is a kilt. It's not Scottish, it's American. It is purely a male garment. So, it is not possible for me to be cross-dressing when I'm wearing something design for a man.

I'm OK with you and VampireWolf not wearing one because it doesn't appeal to you. I'm not OK with you having to put us down just because you disagree.
 
MelancholyMutt said:
All my comments start out tongue in cheek with humor involved... there's nothing wrong with crossdressing or wearing kilts. If you want to, wear it, If we want to, we'll laugh... It was tony who started with the defensive stuff and threats.
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You seem to have left out a few smilies.... And if you felt threatened, it's all in your head.
 
VampyreWolf said:
and we all know that the ppl you gave those cards to were all female... here's a suggestion: they're all wondering where you got your dress.
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Yeah, I guess that's why they were all thinking of buying it for their boyfriends or husbands. And a dress includes the portion above the waist. Didn't your mother teach you anything?
 
Some people are simply not secure enough to wear certain garments, at least not in public. Living in a major city like New York you would think there were odder things adorning people than a simple thing like a modern kilt. Me thinks some doth protest too much...

Now let's all join together in a rousing chorus of "I Feel Pretty"!
 
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