Greetings to my fellow pioneers!`
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 2:53 am
I'm finally getting around to introducing myself. I live in Virginia, USA and have been wearing kilts for over thirty years and have a number of them in my wardrobe. This number is mainly the result of (a) An ongoing battle with my waste-line - pun intended - for the same amount of time and (b) some people in the Scottish family associations over here give you grief for showing up in the wrong colours and so I bought one for each in order to put them out of my misery.
When my job was shipped off to India six years ago, I was pretty depressed for a while and everything remained on the hanger for over two years. I began to feel better about things when I finally landed a job and my wife remarked that it was good to see me in a kilt again. It was about that time that I had the brilliant (?) idea to pair tights with my kilts. The compression created by the tights helped relieve or reduce pain I was having with the sciatic nerves in both of my legs. It also made changing from kilt to trousers to kilt much easier when I needed to do something - like root around in the attic - for which a kilt was impractical. The tights are for casual around the house/around town sorts of things in the colder months. If I attend a Scottish-American event, or visit highland games somewhere, I go in full regulation rig.
My current job has me living away from home in my late mother's house 5 nights a week and after reading the interview with Joel Edgerton, I decided to give skirts a try and thanks to the good offices of LL Bean, I now have about 7 or 8 to call my own. I refer to them as either pleat-less kilts or one-legged trousers.
I'm not sure how the wife is going to take to this latest development. (I love them, BTW, and they allow me to give my kilts a rest) I broached the subject a couple of years ago and her only reply was that I ought to reserve them for around the house/yard which is what I'd planned to do, anyway. My collection resembles my taste in trousers - khakis & jeans - for the most part and I save the colour co-ordination for tights and shirts.
I've rattled on for long enough this evening. It's a pleasure to be amongst such esteemed gentlemen.
Kingussie
When my job was shipped off to India six years ago, I was pretty depressed for a while and everything remained on the hanger for over two years. I began to feel better about things when I finally landed a job and my wife remarked that it was good to see me in a kilt again. It was about that time that I had the brilliant (?) idea to pair tights with my kilts. The compression created by the tights helped relieve or reduce pain I was having with the sciatic nerves in both of my legs. It also made changing from kilt to trousers to kilt much easier when I needed to do something - like root around in the attic - for which a kilt was impractical. The tights are for casual around the house/around town sorts of things in the colder months. If I attend a Scottish-American event, or visit highland games somewhere, I go in full regulation rig.
My current job has me living away from home in my late mother's house 5 nights a week and after reading the interview with Joel Edgerton, I decided to give skirts a try and thanks to the good offices of LL Bean, I now have about 7 or 8 to call my own. I refer to them as either pleat-less kilts or one-legged trousers.
I'm not sure how the wife is going to take to this latest development. (I love them, BTW, and they allow me to give my kilts a rest) I broached the subject a couple of years ago and her only reply was that I ought to reserve them for around the house/yard which is what I'd planned to do, anyway. My collection resembles my taste in trousers - khakis & jeans - for the most part and I save the colour co-ordination for tights and shirts.
I've rattled on for long enough this evening. It's a pleasure to be amongst such esteemed gentlemen.
Kingussie
with my day, Moon, what ever you've been drinking, pass it around 
