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if it is not "appropriate" to wear a kilt all the time, it is not appropriate to wear it at all.
I'd have to disagree on this. I wear the regulation uniform black trousers for driving a school bus but when I am driving a busload of tourists I wear a kilt.
Sticking to the norm for a regular school run inspires confidence from the parents and children.
Tourists come to Scotland to see kilts and expect their driver to wear one.
Back on topic, sightings in the wild, there seem to be more men wearing skirts this year on the British Isles where we are enjoying warm summer weather.
I spotted a gentleman wearing a smart knee length tweed skirt in York a few weeks ago, the skirt had a back vent and looked just like shorts at first.
We had a visitor from Manchester at our railway heritage centre last weekend and he was wearing a fleece jacket with a short unbifurcated garment under it (which could have been a second fleece jacket tied round the waist). As I was on meet and greet duties I was wearing one of my five yard wool kilts at the time and I commented that I envied his comfortable look and wished mine was a bit shorter.
BobM wrote:It illustrates the principle of someone seeing you do something he thinks is wrong (even if it isn't) and being damaged by it.
But does this point up a failing on my part or a failure on his part? I would suppose the second, because to not offend anyone, ever, I would have to be omnicient -- and I'm not.
Retrocomputing -- It's not just a job, it's an adventure!
Vince5680 wrote:I was at a hospital appointment in Chelmsford, Essex, England about eighteen months ago. There was a man waiting in the waiting area were I was. He was sat down reading his book. He had glasses on and a beard. I thought he was wearing shorts at first, then he and I got our number called at the same time. It was only when I was walking behind him down the corridor, I noticed he was wearing a blue denim mini skirt.
Hi Vince (and everyone else)
The chap you saw could well have been me!
I've been away from the forum for quite some time and forgotten my previous membership details. Have had a turbulent 24 months or so. Long story but basically met somebody, told them about me and skirts before anything developed, got into the relationship as she said it was ok, spent last 18 months belittled and bullied (didn't see it until I got out) and now trying to rebuild and regain confidence
Taking things slowly at the moment and catching up on the goings on here.
I've been out and about in Cambridge (UK) most days for the last three months (including to church) in various skirts. My catch phrase is rapidly becoming "no, it's not a kilt". Most comments I've been getting have been complimentary, and most have been to resolve the "is it a kilt" question that seems to form in people's minds when they see a guy in a skirt.
New look for this year is a box-pleated camouflage print that my wife helped me to pick the fabric for. I'll get a picture up at some point.
Almost disappointed that nobody on here has sighted me "in the wild" yet...
ethelthefrog wrote:
Almost disappointed that nobody on here has sighted me "in the wild" yet...
It is frustrating, is it not?
13 years, on and off, unbifurcated in Grenoble, 5 in Malaga, and still nowhere on the internet have I found anything such as "Saw a funny old fellow in the street; what a sight -- he was wearing a skirt and no trousers ..." I'd so like to be famous!
Anonymous as ever.
ethelthefrog wrote:
.... Almost disappointed that nobody on here has sighted me "in the wild" yet...
Paul.
Nobody on this forum has "spotted me" except Steve and Ian who I have met on several occasions but I did have a "sighting" on this web-site http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpres ... hp?id=1145 (I registered as "maninaskirt" there to add a few comments)
"Anothermaninaskirt" (or AMIAS) is also on this forum and has added a few comments as well... (Yes, I know who he is but we have never met... yet!)
So I am one up on you
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" - Winston Churchill.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" - Joseph Goebbels
Vince5680 wrote:I was at a hospital appointment in Chelmsford, Essex, England about eighteen months ago. There was a man waiting in the waiting area were I was. He was sat down reading his book. He had glasses on and a beard. I thought he was wearing shorts at first, then he and I got our number called at the same time. It was only when I was walking behind him down the corridor, I noticed he was wearing a blue denim mini skirt.
Hi Vince (and everyone else)
The chap you saw could well have been me!
I've been away from the forum for quite some time and forgotten my previous membership details. Have had a turbulent 24 months or so. Long story but basically met somebody, told them about me and skirts before anything developed, got into the relationship as she said it was ok, spent last 18 months belittled and bullied (didn't see it until I got out) and now trying to rebuild and regain confidence
Taking things slowly at the moment and catching up on the goings on here.
Hi Old Skirt,
Well that's a thing. Sorry to hear you have had such a bad experience with the relationship.
At least you can move on now.
If you are near by and want to meet for a chat? I am based it south Essex.
couyalair wrote:13 years, on and off, unbifurcated in Grenoble, 5 in Malaga, and still nowhere on the internet have I found anything such as "Saw a funny old fellow in the street; what a sight -- he was wearing a skirt and no trousers ..." I'd so like to be famous!
Anonymous as ever.
I have just tried searching for references to me in a skirt - oh, the vanity! The only thing I found was a link to the Facebook page of my "advisor" at the Job Centre. Sadly her FB posts are viewable only by her FB friends, so I do not know what she has said. (And of course my search terms "man skirt sainsburys saltcoats" could have hit upon her musings on any subject at all. ) Now I am itching to find out, and pondering whether to send her a friend request! BTW, I am no longer unemployed, so presumably there is no bar on her accepting.
