What did *you* wear "out and about" today?

[Since1982]

I came out of the house(I wore skirts in my house for the last 33 years) and I don't want to say I came out of the "closet" cause I'm not gay as is usually associated with that phrase, a year ago. I fully expected to be beat to a pulp by all the redneck commercial fishers that live in my area, I, at first, skulked around at night hiding quickly when anyone came near, but as luck would have it, I saw someone I knew, ducked around a corner so he wouldnt see me and there was another friend I knew just around that corner. So I walked right into her almost..as soon as she realized who it was, she said, "Nice skirt, Skip" ....I was dumbfounded. I said, It's nearly Halloween, I'm trying on a Halloween costume. She said, Halloween isn't for 3 weeks, I don't have a problem with you wearing a skirt, WE don't wear them anymore, i don't even OWN one any more. I saw a big story in the Newspaper about masculine men wearing something called "Utilikilts" and the picture of them didn't look Scottish at all, but just looked like skirts for men. Anyway Skip, that looks nice, I thought it was just a pair of denim shorts like you always wear when I first saw it but then I saw it was a skirt. Where did you get it?

I stuttered a bit and said, I made it out of a pair of denim shorts...She said, "Good Idea", See ya! and walked on to wherever she was going...I stood there in the dark thinking about what I'd seen and heard, Well now, hmmm, So I walked across the street to a 7-11 and went into the light.

I peeped over my shoulder to see if the clerk noticed my skirt, he was ignoring me like any other customer. I got a Mountain Dew out of the cooler and went up front to pay for it. I was giving over the money when 3 commercial fishermen I knew walked in. Here I was standing right out in the light wearing a skirt and waiting to be beat to a pulp and one said, "Nice skirt, skip" I just bought an Amerikilt last month at a Celtic festival in South Carolina, it sure is comfortable. They bought what they wanted and left, I wandered away drinking my soda and thinking hard about the evening. Wow, I thought, maybe what I've been seeing at the Tom's cafe site is really true, no one really cares....

Nowadays, I go everywhere wearing skirts, I have probably 30 of them now, slips, tights, and a bra for my gynecomastia that I've had most of my life.
I gave all my trousers to the Salvation Army long ago and never intend buying any more. If women aren't going to wear skirts, why the heck shouldn't we? Now I go to Bingo at least 3 times a week, I always go skirted, I still own one pair of denim cutoffs that I wear begrudgingly when my skirts are in the wash and I have bawled out my SO for not keeping ahead of her laundry. When I wear the cutoffs to Bingo I have to answer the only question I've ever had about my skirt wearing, "Skip, where's your skirt?"

So get out there and skirt, its really a non-event. I just wish I'd found this site 30 years ago.

[Tripp49]

Welcome Eagle95,I am glad you took the leap.Now tell your mom,and enjoy your skirts all the time.You are not alone.I have several friends that just happento be black who also wear skirts and kilts.Take a look at the SportKilt web site hall of fame and check us out a few of us faculty and staff at NCSSM.
It is no big deal anymore to see a MAN in a skirt.
Again welcome to the CAFE.

Tripp49

[Big and Bashful]

I have just had an uncomfortable morning.
Dressed in:
boxers, jeans, short sleeved shirt,
Big heavy industrial wellington boots,
Cotton gloves, 'Marigold' rubber gloves over them,
Big heavy cotton hooded overalls,
Full face respirator,
All seams, joints, gaps taped over with gaffer tape so that no trace of dust could possibly enter the clothing.
Add to that the top of a Scottish hill, biting cold northerly wind and light rain.
Glad it's over really, till Sunday.

[Since1982]

Taking out an outbreak of Anthrax or some other deadly nerve gas???:think:

[Big and Bashful]

I am in an emergency team and it was a safety drill. More than that I can't say. But it was definitely cold and wet.

[Ash]

I really wish I had worn all that lot at my niece's birthday party last weekend!

Ash

[Big and Bashful]

Don't tell me she's got alpha emitters to!

[Ash]

Once she gets her omni-directional sticky-party-food flinger up and running, one is only sure of one's total safety in the relative secure area of the grown-ups refuge in the kitchen. I find beer helps too, which of course, is also in the kitchen. Coincidences eh, what would we do without them.

ash

[Big and Bashful]

Beer and kitchens, a match made in heaven and a blessed haven during any type of party!
Must admit, if a party involves children, the local pub sounds even better to me. (For those across the Pond- pub=bar)

[binx]

Yes, we do have pub-crawls here...

binx

[Big and Bashful]

Yes, we do have pub-crawls here...

binx

Glad to see it!

I believe you can even get real beer over there now, as in stuff that doesn't need to be chilled to death and served in iced glasses to be drinkable (not that there's anything wrong with that of course!). I've been hearing a lot about many US micro-breweries springing up and getting very inventive as well. Drinking in the States sounds better and better.

[Since1982]

I probably wouldn't weigh what I weigh if it wasn't for bars (US) with kitchens in the back. When I was growing up everyone always knew that the best Cheeseburgers in town were out the back door b4 opening and inside after opening for the day of most of the various "beer and wine" and full tilt liquor bars in town. In the old days, Burger King couldn't hold a candle to bar/pub food.

The bars didn't open for business until 2pm daily, but they opened the back door for all the construction workers in the neighborhood to get cheeseburgers for lunch at noon. In those bars, if you had a problem wrapping your mouth around a bite of cheeseburger, it wasn't because of lots of rabbit food filling the bun but a full (before cooking) half pound of meat and a slice of cheese both above and below the meat, as well as all the rabbit food too. In the 60's and 70's that kind of a noon meal put many a construction worker asleep at his job. :ninjajig:

[Big and Bashful]

Now that sounds like a reasonable burger!
For me the ultimate burgers are made in Sheffield, (Yorkshire- The Third World!), where I learnt to drink and eat in quantity.
Whenever I make the 300 mile trip down to Sheffield, my first stop isn't a friends house, it isn't a pub, it's Uncle Sams on Ecclesall road.
Take 1/2 pound of 100% mince, squidge it into a burger shape and throw it onto a flame grill. Once cooked to perfection stick it in a bun, add a couple of rashers of crispy bacon. Ladle over some cheese (a thick lumpy sauce made of processed cheese and a wee bit of milk to stop it setting, (they have a way of doing it I just can't seem to match). They also had a blue cheese sauce which I should have tried, not sure if that is still available. With this flavour and calorie bomb, I have a portion of fries, and a side order of chilli con carne which is much nicer than vinegar on the fries.

This feast gives me everything, a pound of meat, cheese, spices, fries, some pig and none of that health stuff.

There used to be a place just down the road from that which did a ten ounce burger, and back around 1980 a place on West street I think called Scoffers which did a 16 ounce burger, but they didn't have the same flavour.
Memories!


I haven't been to the U.S. to see how good the meat festivals are, but what I hear sounds worth a visit.

If I remember right I think Uncle Sams has even had a visit from me in my kilt, it might have been yet another similar place called Yankees, which for many years was the best, until Uncle Sams quality picked up again.
Steve D:
You're from Sheffield, do you agree about the burger bars?:drool:

[Ash]

Sorry about the silent scream. It's the sound of my arteries constricting at this horror story of slow death by cholesterol poisoning. You guys must be crazy.
Seriously, after my father died of heart disease ten years ago as a result of a (short!) lifetime of bad eating habits, alcohol and smoking, I spent some time and effort reviewing my own habits. Now at 46 I'm fitter and healthier than he ever was and I plan on staying that way. He was only 60. Even a heart attack 3 years before the big one was insufficient to prompt him to change. There's a history of heart disease in the family and I don't intend to give it any opportunity to take up residence in my body if I can help it, and I think I can. Like Jim Fixx I'll probably shuffle off this mortal coil while out running.

And on that morbid note, I'm off out for a run.

All best wishes,

ash

[Big and Bashful]

Sorry about the silent scream. It's the sound of my arteries constricting at this horror story of slow death by cholesterol poisoning. You guys must be crazy.
Seriously, after my father died of heart disease ten years ago as a result of a (short!) lifetime of bad eating habits, alcohol and smoking, I spent some time and effort reviewing my own habits. Now at 46 I'm fitter and healthier than he ever was and I plan on staying that way. He was only 60. Even a heart attack 3 years before the big one was insufficient to prompt him to change. There's a history of heart disease in the family and I don't intend to give it any opportunity to take up residence in my body if I can help it, and I think I can. Like Jim Fixx I'll probably shuffle off this mortal coil while out running.

And on that morbid note, I'm off out for a run.

All best wishes,

ash

Ash, Sorry to hear about your father. Mine died at 65 from cancer after both his parents lived to 95 and 98.5 years old. Only one thing is certain, no-one lives forever. Don't know what my cholesterol levels are but my blood pressure is normal and I don't often eat food that unhealthy so maybe there's hope!