Rocky and Erik’s comments are spot-on. I was mildly apprehensive the first time I wore my kilt in public. I went to an upscale bar. A female server called out from 20 feet away, “Nice kilt!” ❤️ I went from “mildly apprehensive” to “perfectly comfortable” in 37 nanoseconds. 👍🏼🏴
I'm from a small town in the south I never cared what people thought of me in a kilt. Traditional and utility kilts. No one laughs at or makes fun of a 6 foot 4 inch 300 pound big bearded man
I'm a big guy, too. (6'4" 270) I live in the north and I wear them in the Winter. I get all manner of positive comments. One time I got sang to, and it was by another guy.
It took me a while to work up the courage to put on my first kilt. But when I finally did, I got so many positive comments from both and women. Now when I am not wearing it, people ask me "Hey, where is the kilt? In short, I am so glad that I got into wearing Kilts. Now I have 7 of them.
Coming from a Scotsman I can say this advice is spot on. The only other advice I would give is to the single men going to the pub in a kilt, when you go to the toilet wipe your willy with toilet paper as women tend not to like getting their hands wet :)
I live in Mexico City, and start wearing the kilt since July 2019 and in a country where bullying is a custom almost nobody had made bad comments regarding my outfit. Indeed they look me strange but I've received more compliments that anything else
I started with my first kilt 5 years ago at a Renaissance Faire and had so many positive comments I was amazed. Two years later I was performing at Renfaires as 'The Auld Celt" thanks to some wonderful people I had met who ran one. No Faires in our area this year due to covid and I had just started at senior centers and retirement homes when social distancing shut that down. I have been kilting on regularly and started visiting a large flea market (several thousand people on a weekend) where I am now recognized and welcomed in one of my five kilts. Never heard a negative comment from anyone and the ladies do indeed love'em! Like Rocky said, "Just DO IT!!!".
I watched this pre-kilting and post kilting, I can say Rocky is 100% accurate here, it’s exactly the way that goes with that attitude and yes you get comments but it pales next to how AWESOME I mean AWESOMEEEE it feels
I too am from a small agricultural community. I've worn my kilt away from my town and got many positive comments. Last weekend, 12/9/18, I wore it to a Christmas concert. I got so many positive looks and also found numerous fellow American Scot heritage immigrants. One cousin told me to go all out & wear it all the time. I'm in process of building up my wardrobe & more importantly getting a very good quality Mackenzie tartan. GREAT VIDEO gentlemen!
Guy of Scottish descent here in NC, I've recently started wearing a kilt in public and I was insecure about it at first, but now I feel much more comfortable, confident, and attractive. It's a good conversation starter as well. The ladies do seem to like it.
Ive moved to a small town in the south of England and look forward to wearing it out. Ive been here five years but never had a kilt but now got one and love it. Let men claim the right to wear clothing of our choice not ties and pants.
Great advice from USA Kilts. The message is, get out and wear a kilt if you want to, it's a very practical item of clothing that feels different, but a whole lot better than trousers, shorts etc. You will only need to master kilt etiquette, like keeping your knees together when sitting etc. although that actually helps with your deportment, just ask a woman! I'm a piper so I'm used to it but never forget how good it feels wearing a kilt, in fact it's a privilege. I have ten kilts and two pairs of tartan trews I wear for various occasions, mainly heavy weight and made-to-measure, together with tweed jackets, vests and evening wear with is incredibly smart. It does take a while to gather confidence wearing a kilt in public because you're not used to it, but you have to remember no one actually thinks it strange at all. Quite the contrary, you will have to get used to to men and women (especially women) approaching you giving the greatest compliments, which you may never had experienced about your appearance before. Yes, you eventually get used to that too, it's tough being admired so much!
@@davidmaule3266 That rather depends on what angle the camera is facing or who is looking where, so in this video these guys are ok. Keeping your knees together (yes it can be done) is the fail safe way, the advice I took from women who know about these things. No-on wants to see your bits, neither do you when you look at the photograph afterwards with your mates.
I went out today in my small farming town wearing my MacLeod of Lewis Kilt, complete with flashes and sgian dubhe. I got compliments o it. SO don't necessarily panic if people stare. You might find they actually are appreciative of it.
Im Blessed to Live in New England where Scottish heritage is extremely high. When I wear a kilt you would be suprised how many.people admire it and how many head turns from the wee lasses. :) I am looking forward to purchasing a Fraser hunting tartan kilt from USA Kilts
the words 'JUST DO IT' is key to getting comfortable wearing a kilt... It does help if you are Scottish or of Scottish descent, but is not the main factor, the thing I keep reminding myself is that it is considered "MENS" attire by the public, it is true that I get a lot of good comments, I have been wearing Kilts for every day wear now for about 2 months, I have had so many new (good) experiences in my life that at this time I cannot imagen going back to pants... I do not own any utility kilts, but am looking to get one some day... I currently own about 6 kilts and have more on order... I am all in on this.... JUST DO IT! .... you won't regret it.
@Bo Zi I guess you have never came into contact with a kilt if you refer to them as skirts, anyway please leave your ingnorance to yourself, thank you!
I stated my intention on facebook of wanting to switch to kilts, half expecting to be talked down from it, nope. Support and encouragement all the way! If you are in a southern town, remember a lot of southerners have Scottish heritage and think it is cool someone is donning a kilt.
No problems with wearing it all. I wore it downtown Atlanta on St. Paddy's Day with no cat-calls at all. I did have to check several times to make sure I was wearing pants under the kilt as it was very breezy. LOL
I live in a small town in northwestern tn and while I'm not a kilt guy myself I see a guy that works at Wal-Mart wearing one all the time. I think it's cool.
Hey Rocky and the gang, love this video that you put out 2 years ago. As far as wearing kilts, you folks should really listen to Rocky because he makes a lot of sense. Ever since I was a kid growing up I always thought that kilts were cool, and as I got older. Bought my first Kilt from stumptown kilts, and love wearing it all the time. But the very first guilt that I ever had was given to me as a gift, and that was the Spartan kill period from utilikilts in Seattle Washington, it took me about a year before I could actually get it altered and fixed and I wear it like I wear the ones from Utah kills. Every time I go into Knoxville Tennessee, I'm always finding one or two people that just love the Kilt, and a matter of fact I had one young lady at trader Joe's says you rock that kills. Like you said Rocky it's a mindset thing, and I do get people asking me questions from time to time And on that note you guys at USA kilts you guys rock
I always laugh when I hear someone say "a guy in a skirt, how messed up are you?" My response is normally along the lines "I can wear this because I'm sure of who I am and completely certain about my sexuality, it's a shame that it makes you confused about yours.....but hey, that's your problem, not mine." You want to wear a kilt, get it on ! ! !
Did we have Kilts in Ireland back in 1972. LOL I remember my first time seeing men wear kilts. They were the "strange" nationalist in my local village. They would march up and down the village on certain days like St Patrick's day, Easter Sunday etc. That was way back in the 1960's. Now I am the strange old man wearing mine to the Drama festivals.
I first wore my (utility) kilt in public to my HEMA (historical European martial arts) classes. But that really only half counts as some other's in the club were modern versions of 15th century pants so we make an odd looking group none the less. The first time I wore it in general public was we were in a long heat wave and I just stopped caring and wore it to my college classes. From that point on it was fairly regular to see me in it and as you said mostly positive feed back from it. Now I just need to get more then the one.
The kilt isn't inherently Irish but being an Irish nationalist, I subscribe to their importance. People ask me about it, because in Éire if you're not going to a wedding it's a bit more odd, but I just tend to tell them the truth and get a friendly remark before we both crack on.
I live in Pataskala, Ohio, (20 miles East of Columbus). I went out in my kilt today (MacLean of Duart Modern Dress). I visited four stores making sure I walked all over each store. Most people didn't even acknowledge that I was even there, much less wearing a kilt. It wasn't until I got to the last store, (Lowes) before somebody said anything and then it was Very positive compliments. Kudos to the folks at Lowes for that! So yeah, like Rocky & Eric said; "Just do it! There's Nothing to it. It's a road block the size of a paperclip." Doesn't take much to get over that. Oh yes I complemented a well dressed Gentleman, (My Senior) at Half Priced Books on his Plaid Button up Shirt because it was almost a dead match for my Tartan. (Imagine the odds). I think he rather enjoyed the compliment, I told him it was a very hansom shirt and he looked very smart in it! So I guess as I am writing this I am feeling pretty good about myself. I was a proper "Kilted Ambassador" today, And when you kilt up, you can be too! MAJOR KUDOS to USA Kilts!!! For doing what you do best.
I wore a kilt the first time in Vegas, to a ren faire. Went to the bar afterwards and everyone was cool, except one older lady who thought she would check if i had anything on under. She was sitting in low booth that i was standing next to so it wasn't a flagrant lifting of the kilt, more like a sneaky move. I didn't know her though so she got a stern look and finder wag.
The first time I wore a tartan kilt in public (away from the rest of my pipe band), my wife and I were walking into a shopping mall after a parade. I had a car full of teen age boys "wolf whistle" at me as we walked in, but that was the only "negative" incident I received. Everything else was positive.
First time I wore my kilt was yesterday, I had old people looking at me with a look of shock, people my age basically either ignoring or I catch one recognizing what it is which makes me happy, and the odd comment from a teen. I felt nervous when I woke up but once I forced myself out of the door that nervous state kept going down and down, throughout the day the only thing I still wasn't all comfortable with was sitting down and getting up, but I managed. Tomorrow will be my second time and I'm still nervous as fuck xDD, but thanks to your video my brain is getting comfortable with doing it so thank you very much :D
I would love to have a traditional tartan kilt, but in the meantime, my utili-kilt will do just fine. No, it's not traditional, but I will wear it with the same respect as a tartan kilt. To hell what idiots think.
Do it. I wear kilts, utility kilts and denim skirts. You will be surprised at how comfortable they are and the here and there comment of how great my legs are!
My pops a preacher so when i finally learned to play bagpipes i asked to play amazing grace at the begining in church so i wore a kilt and now I where a kilt every Sunday to play the star spangled banner
I plan on wearing my "utility" kilt for the 1st time @ The World of Faeries" festival, where EVERYONE is "in costume." In fact, the 1st time I went there I was dressed like "Clark Griswold" (polo shirt and khaki slacks and I felt SO out of place amidst the little girls wearing Tinker bell wings, the teens in "Cosplay" dress and the veterans in theatrical costume. This time, wearing my kilt, I will fit right in!😎
I wore the kilt for my first time a few days ago (and I'm almost 60) for my wife's birthday (my wife was a little shocked when I walk into the bar)! We were in a hotel has her surprise, nice dinner, wine tasting etc. and a lot of people around. Oh and I took our 13 year old daughter also........ People I didn't know in the hotel were ok with it (maybe talking to each other, why in the winter time in Sweden someone was wearing a dam kilt). But my 13 year old daughter had the bigger problem and wouldn't walk next to me while I was wearing "A skirt" has she put it. It was an Irish kilt and part of her heritage and told her to get use to it if she still wanted her monthly allowance!
Why is this even a topic of discussion? It's not taboo. If people see me wearing my kilt - which isn't very often - they'll frequently comment on how cool it looks. Then they go on to say that they couldn't possibly wear a kilt because they're not from Scotland. I just tell them, if you like it: wear it. It's not cultural appropriation - it's just clothing, for fuck's sake. Also, chicks dig it.
MY CLASSMATE IRISH LEVEL WORE HIS KILT ALL THE TIME HE HAD SEVERAL KILT PINS ALONG WITH A SPORRAN HE ALSO HAD THE KILT BELT I WOULD LOVE TO FIND SOME KILT PINS AND THE CAP
If you think you can't afford one you are mistaken . If you really want one...and I include an 8 yard wool kilt as well then stop buying a takeout coffee everyday for a year and put that money in a kilt jar instead . If people add up what they throw away everyday on inexpensive treats they would be surprised at what they have spent at the end of a year . I would rather have a kilt than 300 cups of coffee that I can make at home . I use coffee as an example . Everyone has their treat they can do without for the sake of saving money !
@@rickmoore3730 Far be it to tell someone else how to spend their money but I tend to agree, it's a matter of priorities. If USA Kilts can offer a light weight kilt for 120 dollars then it's affordable, and as you say, just sacrifice something you don't really need and save. Yes, I still strongly recommend a heavier wool kilt any day, particularly if you intend you get good use from it, because it should last a lifetime. But there's no harm in starting inexpensive to discover if a kilt suits the wearer which it always will-once you have the confidence (which comes quick and fast with the compliments!).
Broached wearing the great kilt in public today for the first time, got wolf whistled, LOL, I hardly even know how to put one on yet... But as you say the mental curve is only so big... even though this ain't America, no-one in my town wears a kilt casually, in fact I've never seen anyone in my whole country wearing a kilt for casual day-wear, ahh they'll get over it...
Simon P It would depend on which state your in. Carrying a sizable blade on your person may be illegal in some municipalities. It wouldn't be a problem in my area of the country though (deep south).
I'm American of Spanish and German ancestry here but I'm thinking of buying me a kilt. Don't know if I can pull it off but it has a certain appeal to me. I'm really drawn to them!
Although I have two family tartan kilts when people ask me why I am wearing a kilt ( when I tell them there is no parade , I'm not a piper etc. ) I say because I like to wear kilts everyday . You don't need to justify wearing one . They are too awesome for an apology !
There's no problem with them, plenty of people here in Scotland have ancestry from Ireland, Europe all over and we are all proudly Scottish, so don't worry about it.
If anyone needs a little more of a nudge! In world war 2, the nazis made fun of the 31 Scottish infentry regiment for wearing kilts and so the regiment started calling it skirts and nicknamed them selves the "ladies from hell"! They owned it and it made them awesome! 🌲🍃🌍🛡🗡🍃
@@tacticalministries3508 The Scots culture did indeed come from Ireland, but much like any migration and cultural change the people themselves don't really change much. The Picts, weren't replaced wholesale by a Gaelic population, it was a combination of migration and cultural synthesis.
@Mel Beasley Thats a load of bs ,the vast majority of those tartans are for the american market,the local population of these countries don't know these tartans exist. County identity is a big thing in ireland and each county has a representative gaelic sports team which most of the county supports,so if county tartans were a genuine manifestation of irish culture,you would see Croke park 82300 fulll of county tartans on all ireland final day which of course is not the case.
@Mel Beasley I have no objection to anyone wearing these tartans so long as they know that they are not really intwined into the culture they supposedly represent.Maybe it is the case welsh people are latching onto the kilt good luck to them,but in ireland i see no evidence of any interest in kilts or tartans
I just wear what I want and you don't have to like it. That's it! However if you touch or follow me around to make fun of me, I can guarantee something on your body is going to mysteriously break.
I went to a liquor store for a bottle of whiskey for a party. A customer called out, "The ladies from Hell are here." Another time a truckload of dimwits asedi if I and my friends wewe Iranians. So a kilt is not always recognized.
Tobad I'm german ethnicity or else I'd were them because I'm fascinated with the scotish highlands and its history and culture and i think they look cool but i have no family ties
i AND A COUPLE OF GDS - ALL OF US IN KILTS- WENT INTO A LIQUOR STORE TO GET SOME "REFRESHMENTS". a MAN IN THE STORE CALLES OUT, "tHE LADIES FROM hEL ARE HERE". gUY IKNEW HIS HISTORY.
The fact is we wish people were more complicit or at least seeing new things of others as normal *because we're all different* but as long as mankind walked the earth after Adam and Eve ate forbidden fruit, low self-esteem was norm during all of human history & so they'll think you have some kind of that, *and that's* what human morbidity finds as an interesting story.
Well the question I have is I am interested in wearing a kilt but how in this day and age do you have the confidence to go Camando in a garb with "easy access". Because as I see it all you need is someone calling you a perv and getting police involved then you end up on some sex offender list because some mellenial figured you shouldn't be wearing that
First, going commando is optional. When wearing the kilt, I'll go commando under some circumstances, and wear some undergarments in other circumstances. I would recommend adjusting to the circumstances. (e.g. If you're going to the local nursing home to spend the afternoon climbing up ladders to hang decorations, you might want to wear something under the kilt.) Second, people's assumptions might not match reality. One evening, my wife overheard a gentleman SWEAR that I wasn't wearing anything under my kilt. But on that evening, I was. (We were out dancing, and I assumed my kilt would swirl up when I spun, so I wore a little something underneath.) Third, the gentleman who assumed I was commando was either a Boomer or ... er ... what's the generation that's older than Boomers? He was definitely ~50 years older than a millennial. (I'm Gen X. My wife is a Boomer.) Fourth, if the police want to look under my kilt, they better have a court order (regardless of what I may or may not be wearing under it). Though, after wearing my kilt a couple hundred (or so) times in public, I consider a police inquiry to be an unlikely consequence during a day/night out. I live in Houston (southern, but not a small town). My primary experience from wearing a kilt (in Houston and other urban centers) is that people pretend to be too cosmopolitan to pay any attention to the kilt. The few people who comment are usually making positive comments.
Just wear your kilt when and where you like, it's male clothing, invented in Lancashire in 1715,ano the scots don't like the fact it was invented by an Englishman, but then I'm English, from Lancashire, live with it, your problem, not mine! 😂
Mr Rawlinson inventor of the walking kilt which is similar to the modern day kilt but different to the kilt worn in Scotland in the 1600's - 100 years before the Englishman. Suppose youse will be wanting the Haggis anaw eh ? What aboot bagpipes ?
Rocky and Erik’s comments are spot-on. I was mildly apprehensive the first time I wore my kilt in public. I went to an upscale bar. A female server called out from 20 feet away, “Nice kilt!” ❤️
I went from “mildly apprehensive” to “perfectly comfortable” in 37 nanoseconds. 👍🏼🏴
I'm from a small town in the south I never cared what people thought of me in a kilt. Traditional and utility kilts. No one laughs at or makes fun of a 6 foot 4 inch 300 pound big bearded man
I’m 6’2 and 290, I’ve worn it out a few times and each time was positive. Free ball swinging is life bro!
I'm a big guy, too. (6'4" 270) I live in the north and I wear them in the Winter. I get all manner of positive comments. One time I got sang to, and it was by another guy.
Are you guys sure this was because of your size? Coming from a 5ft 10 160 lb man
@@terrifiedreality6473 lmaoo
@Bo Zi ok go up to a true Scott wearing a kilt, laugh in his face about it and say real men don't wear skirts.
Not only do I like this, I love this. Kilt wearing is FUN.
It took me a while to work up the courage to put on my first kilt. But when I finally did, I got so many positive comments from both and women. Now when I am not wearing it, people ask me "Hey, where is the kilt? In short, I am so glad that I got into wearing Kilts. Now I have 7 of them.
That's awesome, Mark! Happy to hear you got over your fear and are enjoying wearing a kilt!
Could you tell us what your kilts/tartans are, 7 is a good collection.
DITTO!
Rocky (left) is wearing American Heritage and Eric (Right) is wearing the Co. Wexford tartan
Coming from a Scotsman I can say this advice is spot on. The only other advice I would give is to the single men going to the pub in a kilt, when you go to the toilet wipe your willy with toilet paper as women tend not to like getting their hands wet :)
Big James
HAHA!.....
@@gordonpage1 True stories are always the funniest :)
Just give it a couple extra shakes, that toilet paper is unsanitary.
@@turdferguson2982 Just remember, more than 5 shakes is a wank :P
@@bigjames3601 ...particularly in Waterloo Station bogs, so best avoided!. (No more toilet jokes please!)
I live in Mexico City, and start wearing the kilt since July 2019 and in a country where bullying is a custom almost nobody had made bad comments regarding my outfit. Indeed they look me strange but I've received more compliments that anything else
I started with my first kilt 5 years ago at a Renaissance Faire and had so many positive comments I was amazed. Two years later I was performing at Renfaires as 'The Auld Celt" thanks to some wonderful people I had met who ran one. No Faires in our area this year due to covid and I had just started at senior centers and retirement homes when social distancing shut that down. I have been kilting on regularly and started visiting a large flea market (several thousand people on a weekend) where I am now recognized and welcomed in one of my five kilts. Never heard a negative comment from anyone and the ladies do indeed love'em! Like Rocky said, "Just DO IT!!!".
I watched this pre-kilting and post kilting, I can say Rocky is 100% accurate here, it’s exactly the way that goes with that attitude and yes you get comments but it pales next to how AWESOME I mean AWESOMEEEE it feels
This is true. It took me awhile to go out in mine. But found nothing but positive response
I too am from a small agricultural community. I've worn my kilt away from my town and got many positive comments. Last weekend, 12/9/18, I wore it to a Christmas concert. I got so many positive looks and also found numerous fellow American Scot heritage immigrants. One cousin told me to go all out & wear it all the time. I'm in process of building up my wardrobe & more importantly getting a very good quality Mackenzie tartan. GREAT VIDEO gentlemen!
Thanks! Let us know if you need assistance with any of your highland wear accessories and we'll be happy to help. :-) www.usakilts.com
@@USAKiltsOfficial GUARANTEED!!! After watching the video, I was impressed by the items
Guy of Scottish descent here in NC, I've recently started wearing a kilt in public and I was insecure about it at first, but now I feel much more comfortable, confident, and attractive. It's a good conversation starter as well. The ladies do seem to like it.
Ive moved to a small town in the south of England and look forward to wearing it out. Ive been here five years but never had a kilt but now got one and love it. Let men claim the right to wear clothing of our choice not ties and pants.
Great advice from USA Kilts. The message is, get out and wear a kilt if you want to, it's a very practical item of clothing that feels different, but a whole lot better than trousers, shorts etc. You will only need to master kilt etiquette, like keeping your knees together when sitting etc. although that actually helps with your deportment, just ask a woman! I'm a piper so I'm used to it but never forget how good it feels wearing a kilt, in fact it's a privilege. I have ten kilts and two pairs of tartan trews I wear for various occasions, mainly heavy weight and made-to-measure, together with tweed jackets, vests and evening wear with is incredibly smart.
It does take a while to gather confidence wearing a kilt in public because you're not used to it, but you have to remember no one actually thinks it strange at all. Quite the contrary, you will have to get used to to men and women (especially women) approaching you giving the greatest compliments, which you may never had experienced about your appearance before.
Yes, you eventually get used to that too, it's tough being admired so much!
You might note that neither of the guys in the video have their knees together. They've got it right.
@@davidmaule3266 That rather depends on what angle the camera is facing or who is looking where, so in this video these guys are ok. Keeping your knees together (yes it can be done) is the fail safe way, the advice I took from women who know about these things.
No-on wants to see your bits, neither do you when you look at the photograph afterwards with your mates.
I went out today in my small farming town wearing my MacLeod of Lewis Kilt, complete with flashes and sgian dubhe. I got compliments o it. SO don't necessarily panic if people stare. You might find they actually are appreciative of it.
Couldn't wait to get my Kilt on and head down to the pub.
This summer I wear a Kilt almost daily, and couldn't be more proud of my Scottish descent.
Im Blessed to Live in New England where Scottish heritage is extremely high. When I wear a kilt you would be suprised how many.people admire it and how many head turns from the wee lasses. :) I am looking forward to purchasing a Fraser hunting tartan kilt from USA Kilts
We'll be honored to help you out!
Same, I only ever wear trousers when I have to, which is almost never. Proud to be a New Englander with Scottish roots!
the words 'JUST DO IT' is key to getting comfortable wearing a kilt... It does help if you are Scottish or of Scottish descent, but is not the main factor, the thing I keep reminding myself is that it is considered "MENS" attire by the public, it is true that I get a lot of good comments, I have been wearing Kilts for every day wear now for about 2 months, I have had so many new (good) experiences in my life that at this time I cannot imagen going back to pants... I do not own any utility kilts, but am looking to get one some day... I currently own about 6 kilts and have more on order... I am all in on this.... JUST DO IT! .... you won't regret it.
Real men wear kilts!
Bo Zi naw
@Bo Zi I guess you have never came into contact with a kilt if you refer to them as skirts, anyway please leave your ingnorance to yourself, thank you!
The choking Llama well said 👍🏻
@Bo Zi So you define kilts as skirts, seems you have a pretty low vocabulary, but I mean whatever works for you
Bo Zi its only skirt if you were boxers under it
I stated my intention on facebook of wanting to switch to kilts, half expecting to be talked down from it, nope. Support and encouragement all the way! If you are in a southern town, remember a lot of southerners have Scottish heritage and think it is cool someone is donning a kilt.
No problems with wearing it all. I wore it downtown Atlanta on St. Paddy's Day with no cat-calls at all. I did have to check several times to make sure I was wearing pants under the kilt as it was very breezy. LOL
I live in a small town in northwestern tn and while I'm not a kilt guy myself I see a guy that works at Wal-Mart wearing one all the time. I think it's cool.
But your watching this... It's only a matter of time...
@@ditch1776 yeah, ive already been scoping out a utilitu kilt lol.
Hey Rocky and the gang, love this video that you put out 2 years ago.
As far as wearing kilts, you folks should really listen to Rocky because he makes a lot of sense.
Ever since I was a kid growing up I always thought that kilts were cool, and as I got older. Bought my first Kilt from stumptown kilts, and love wearing it all the time.
But the very first guilt that I ever had was given to me as a gift, and that was the Spartan kill period from utilikilts in Seattle Washington, it took me about a year before I could actually get it altered and fixed and I wear it like I wear the ones from Utah kills.
Every time I go into Knoxville Tennessee, I'm always finding one or two people that just love the Kilt, and a matter of fact I had one young lady at trader Joe's says you rock that kills.
Like you said Rocky it's a mindset thing, and I do get people asking me questions from time to time
And on that note you guys at USA kilts you guys rock
I always laugh when I hear someone say "a guy in a skirt, how messed up are you?"
My response is normally along the lines "I can wear this because I'm sure of who I am and completely certain about my sexuality, it's a shame that it makes you confused about yours.....but hey, that's your problem, not mine."
You want to wear a kilt, get it on ! ! !
Did we have Kilts in Ireland back in 1972. LOL
I remember my first time seeing men wear kilts.
They were the "strange" nationalist in my local village. They would march up and down the village on certain days like St Patrick's day, Easter Sunday etc. That was way back in the 1960's.
Now I am the strange old man wearing mine to the Drama festivals.
I first wore my (utility) kilt in public to my HEMA (historical European martial arts) classes. But that really only half counts as some other's in the club were modern versions of 15th century pants so we make an odd looking group none the less. The first time I wore it in general public was we were in a long heat wave and I just stopped caring and wore it to my college classes. From that point on it was fairly regular to see me in it and as you said mostly positive feed back from it. Now I just need to get more then the one.
Love it, disabled airport worker from Boston, but hunts,camps in Maine
Awesome kilts
The kilt isn't inherently Irish but being an Irish nationalist, I subscribe to their importance. People ask me about it, because in Éire if you're not going to a wedding it's a bit more odd, but I just tend to tell them the truth and get a friendly remark before we both crack on.
I live in Pataskala, Ohio, (20 miles East of Columbus). I went out in my kilt today (MacLean of Duart Modern Dress). I visited four stores making sure I walked all over each store. Most people didn't even acknowledge that I was even there, much less wearing a kilt. It wasn't until I got to the last store, (Lowes) before somebody said anything and then it was Very positive compliments. Kudos to the folks at Lowes for that! So yeah, like Rocky & Eric said; "Just do it! There's Nothing to it. It's a road block the size of a paperclip." Doesn't take much to get over that. Oh yes I complemented a well dressed Gentleman, (My Senior) at Half Priced Books on his Plaid Button up Shirt because it was almost a dead match for my Tartan. (Imagine the odds). I think he rather enjoyed the compliment, I told him it was a very hansom shirt and he looked very smart in it! So I guess as I am writing this I am feeling pretty good about myself. I was a proper "Kilted Ambassador" today, And when you kilt up, you can be too! MAJOR KUDOS to USA Kilts!!! For doing what you do best.
I wore a kilt the first time in Vegas, to a ren faire. Went to the bar afterwards and everyone was cool, except one older lady who thought she would check if i had anything on under. She was sitting in low booth that i was standing next to so it wasn't a flagrant lifting of the kilt, more like a sneaky move. I didn't know her though so she got a stern look and finder wag.
oh my!
The first time I wore a tartan kilt in public (away from the rest of my pipe band), my wife and I were walking into a shopping mall after a parade. I had a car full of teen age boys "wolf whistle" at me as we walked in, but that was the only "negative" incident I received. Everything else was positive.
First time I wore my kilt was yesterday, I had old people looking at me with a look of shock, people my age basically either ignoring or I catch one recognizing what it is which makes me happy, and the odd comment from a teen. I felt nervous when I woke up but once I forced myself out of the door that nervous state kept going down and down, throughout the day the only thing I still wasn't all comfortable with was sitting down and getting up, but I managed. Tomorrow will be my second time and I'm still nervous as fuck xDD, but thanks to your video my brain is getting comfortable with doing it so thank you very much :D
Awesome!!! Happy to hear we were able to help in a small way. 😁
Love it. Keep up the good work.
I would love to have a traditional tartan kilt, but in the meantime, my utili-kilt will do just fine. No, it's not traditional, but I will wear it with the same respect as a tartan kilt. To hell what idiots think.
Thats it pure and simple.
“Just Do It”
thanks for this video, today i'm going first time in a kilt, i am all shaking but gotta do it
Oscar, we promise you that this time tomorrow, you're going to look back at it and say "what was I so concerned about?!" You got it!
Do it. I wear kilts, utility kilts and denim skirts. You will be surprised at how comfortable they are and the here and there comment of how great my legs are!
My pops a preacher so when i finally learned to play bagpipes i asked to play amazing grace at the begining in church so i wore a kilt and now I where a kilt every Sunday to play the star spangled banner
I plan on wearing my "utility" kilt for the 1st time @ The World of Faeries" festival, where EVERYONE is "in costume." In fact, the 1st time I went there I was dressed like "Clark Griswold" (polo shirt and khaki slacks and I felt SO out of place amidst the little girls wearing Tinker bell wings, the teens in "Cosplay" dress and the veterans in theatrical costume. This time, wearing my kilt, I will fit right in!😎
When someone asks why its called a kilt tell them its named after what happened to the last person to mock one
I wore the kilt for my first time a few days ago (and I'm almost 60) for my wife's birthday (my wife was a little shocked when I walk into the bar)! We were in a hotel has her surprise, nice dinner, wine tasting etc. and a lot of people around. Oh and I took our 13 year old daughter also........ People I didn't know in the hotel were ok with it (maybe talking to each other, why in the winter time in Sweden someone was wearing a dam kilt). But my 13 year old daughter had the bigger problem and wouldn't walk next to me while I was wearing "A skirt" has she put it. It was an Irish kilt and part of her heritage and told her to get use to it if she still wanted her monthly allowance!
Just a question Why do you use the Irish pipes in your opening and not the Highland pipes or small pipes,?
Be the “weird guy in the kilt”! I’ve lost track of how many Kilt related stories that people have told me.
First time I wore a kilt I got a lot of positive feedback... besides my aunt. She thought that men shouldn't be wearing kilts.
Who else should wear a kilt? Kilts are not traditionally worn by women - although I've seen some that do, and that's totally fine.
@@Federation42movies Everyone and everything.
I want a kilt now
Why is this even a topic of discussion? It's not taboo.
If people see me wearing my kilt - which isn't very often - they'll frequently comment on how cool it looks. Then they go on to say that they couldn't possibly wear a kilt because they're not from Scotland. I just tell them, if you like it: wear it. It's not cultural appropriation - it's just clothing, for fuck's sake.
Also, chicks dig it.
I ran my kilt in Mexico!
They definitely didn't understand by the looks, but no one did anything about it.
I was the bad ass!
Just do it!
MY CLASSMATE IRISH LEVEL WORE HIS KILT ALL THE TIME HE HAD SEVERAL KILT PINS ALONG WITH A SPORRAN HE ALSO HAD THE KILT BELT I WOULD LOVE TO FIND SOME KILT PINS AND THE CAP
I just wish I could afford one!!
Well, depends on what you're after. We can set you up for around $120, if a casual light-weight kilt is good enough for your first go. #shamelessplug
Save up, get a good heavy one, lighter for the summer, make sure the sizing is correct for you, it's worth it, you won't regret it..
If you think you can't afford one you are mistaken . If you really want one...and I include an 8 yard wool kilt as well then stop buying a takeout coffee everyday for a year and put that money in a kilt jar instead . If people add up what they throw away everyday on inexpensive treats they would be surprised at what they have spent at the end of a year . I would rather have a kilt than 300 cups of coffee that I can make at home . I use coffee as an example . Everyone has their treat they can do without for the sake of saving money !
@@rickmoore3730 Far be it to tell someone else how to spend their money but I tend to agree, it's a matter of priorities. If USA Kilts can offer a light weight kilt for 120 dollars then it's affordable, and as you say, just sacrifice something you don't really need and save.
Yes, I still strongly recommend a heavier wool kilt any day, particularly if you intend you get good use from it, because it should last a lifetime. But there's no harm in starting inexpensive to discover if a kilt suits the wearer which it always will-once you have the confidence (which comes quick and fast with the compliments!).
I moved from Minnesota to Missouri and no one eats a kilt... haha. My wife judges me but I love my kilts
I always get positive comments utilikilt or dress kilt. I’m going to a black tie event next year.
I love my kilt!!!
Do you have a cycling kilt or a weightlifting kilt...sports kilt
Yes, we do... our Casual Kilt: www.usakilts.com/casual-kilt.html
Lets start wearing kilts y'all a kilt challenge
challenge accepted
Broached wearing the great kilt in public today for the first time, got wolf whistled, LOL, I hardly even know how to put one on yet... But as you say the mental curve is only so big... even though this ain't America, no-one in my town wears a kilt casually, in fact I've never seen anyone in my whole country wearing a kilt for casual day-wear, ahh they'll get over it...
That's awesome, Brett! Good for you!
Maybe you'll start a trend! :-)
What is the craic regarding wearing a sgian dubh in your country?
Simon P It would depend on which state your in. Carrying a sizable blade on your person may be illegal in some municipalities. It wouldn't be a problem in my area of the country though (deep south).
I am from a small village in Sweden which is exactly like the deep south.
Women love the look of a man in a kilt, we just love it.
The dress outfit behind you guys is sooo sexy and elegant.
is it true that your not supposed to wear any underwear with kilts?
its down to personal preference
Question, are there people who that are not Scottish descendant wearing Kilts? I could see myself wearing a kilt.
Absolutely! Most of the staff have SOME Scottish or Irish heritage, but there re some of us who have none (we just love kilts). :-)
I'm American of Spanish and German ancestry here but I'm thinking of buying me a kilt. Don't know if I can pull it off but it has a certain appeal to me. I'm really drawn to them!
Aye, I’m Scottish and Italian on my mother’s side and German on my dads side. I proudly wear my Campbell kilt......
Although I have two family tartan kilts when people ask me why I am wearing a kilt ( when I tell them there is no parade , I'm not a piper etc. ) I say because I like to wear kilts everyday . You don't need to justify wearing one . They are too awesome for an apology !
There's no problem with them, plenty of people here in Scotland have ancestry from Ireland, Europe all over and we are all proudly Scottish, so don't worry about it.
I'm a Lyft driver and I wear my Kilt to work the look on people's faces when I get to the airport that's great
If anyone needs a little more of a nudge!
In world war 2, the nazis made fun of the 31 Scottish infentry regiment for wearing kilts and so the regiment started calling it skirts and nicknamed them selves the "ladies from hell"!
They owned it and it made them awesome! 🌲🍃🌍🛡🗡🍃
spartan also wearing kilt
Be a Nike and just do it, great advice fellas.
I really live wearing kilts, but I want to wear my family tartan, I have found pictures online, but have not been able to find anyone who makes it
I assume you're looking for Patterson? We carry it! www.usakilts.com/gallery/13-16-oz-wool/patterson-blue
I seriously doubt that Jesus wore pants!
Our Blessed Lord wore a tunic and an outer seamless garment.......sandels.....He would have worn a prayer shawl since he was a kosher Jew......
@@scottweeks6379 except the Lord would have kept his loin cloth but them kilt wearers are ‘Scot-free’… 😂
Come on! If ya'll have to help somebody with there confidence to wear a kilt it's already to late!!
Kilts do not come from Ireland the come from Scotland and I am Scottish
Yes but scotsmen originally came from Ireland
@@tacticalministries3508 The Scots culture did indeed come from Ireland, but much like any migration and cultural change the people themselves don't really change much. The Picts, weren't replaced wholesale by a Gaelic population, it was a combination of migration and cultural synthesis.
@Mel Beasley The kilt is not celtic, We've only been wearing them in Scotland since the 1600's
@Mel Beasley Thats a load of bs ,the vast majority of those tartans are for the american market,the local population of these countries don't know these tartans exist. County identity is a big thing in ireland and each county has a representative gaelic sports team which most of the county supports,so if county tartans were a genuine manifestation of irish culture,you would see Croke park 82300 fulll of county tartans on all ireland final day which of course is not the case.
@Mel Beasley I have no objection to anyone wearing these tartans so long as they know that they are not really intwined into the culture they supposedly represent.Maybe it is the case welsh people are latching onto the kilt good luck to them,but in ireland i see no evidence of any interest in kilts or tartans
I just wear what I want and you don't have to like it. That's it!
However if you touch or follow me around to make fun of me, I can guarantee something on your body is going to mysteriously break.
i love a men in kilts
That guy in the grocery store looks like a younger me! Spooky! I feel SOOOOO SORRY for the poor bastard:)
wore mine out the day I got it. some looks, but I didn't care.
why did this appear in my recommended?! Kowalski analysis
because kilts are that awesome !
Just wear one, who give af and if someone says something lay em out
I went to a liquor store for a bottle of whiskey for a party. A customer called out, "The ladies from Hell are here." Another time a truckload of dimwits asedi if I and my friends wewe Iranians. So a kilt is not always recognized.
A kilt is the best way to flash The ladies and not get attested, officer the wind dun blew me kilt up, ,I canni du nought bout it. 😜
Wearing traditional clothing might be awkward at first everywhere around the world. Do not worry! Someday they'll all be used to it
Tobad I'm german ethnicity or else I'd were them because I'm fascinated with the scotish highlands and its history and culture and i think they look cool but i have no family ties
Rocky is part German!
i AND A COUPLE OF GDS - ALL OF US IN KILTS- WENT INTO A LIQUOR STORE TO GET SOME "REFRESHMENTS". a MAN IN THE STORE CALLES OUT, "tHE LADIES FROM hEL ARE HERE". gUY IKNEW HIS HISTORY.
How to develop kilt confidence, spend $500 on a kilt and gear.
I Like Wear My Kilt,
The fact is we wish people were more complicit or at least seeing new things of others as normal *because we're all different* but as long as mankind walked the earth after Adam and Eve ate forbidden fruit, low self-esteem was norm during all of human history & so they'll think you have some kind of that, *and that's* what human morbidity finds as an interesting story.
I love the advice but you said "weirdo in the kilt"??? Strange comment...
My girlfriend asked me when I wear my kilt, if I feel like a little girl! :(
Well the question I have is I am interested in wearing a kilt but how in this day and age do you have the confidence to go Camando in a garb with "easy access". Because as I see it all you need is someone calling you a perv and getting police involved then you end up on some sex offender list because some mellenial figured you shouldn't be wearing that
Whether you wear underwear or not is your problem, not theirs.
A true Scotsman would never wear underwear, why would someone call a person wearing a kilt "a perv" ? Ive only ever had compliments or banter
First, going commando is optional. When wearing the kilt, I'll go commando under some circumstances, and wear some undergarments in other circumstances. I would recommend adjusting to the circumstances. (e.g. If you're going to the local nursing home to spend the afternoon climbing up ladders to hang decorations, you might want to wear something under the kilt.) Second, people's assumptions might not match reality. One evening, my wife overheard a gentleman SWEAR that I wasn't wearing anything under my kilt. But on that evening, I was. (We were out dancing, and I assumed my kilt would swirl up when I spun, so I wore a little something underneath.) Third, the gentleman who assumed I was commando was either a Boomer or ... er ... what's the generation that's older than Boomers? He was definitely ~50 years older than a millennial. (I'm Gen X. My wife is a Boomer.) Fourth, if the police want to look under my kilt, they better have a court order (regardless of what I may or may not be wearing under it). Though, after wearing my kilt a couple hundred (or so) times in public, I consider a police inquiry to be an unlikely consequence during a day/night out. I live in Houston (southern, but not a small town). My primary experience from wearing a kilt (in Houston and other urban centers) is that people pretend to be too cosmopolitan to pay any attention to the kilt. The few people who comment are usually making positive comments.
Just wear your kilt when and where you like, it's male clothing, invented in Lancashire in 1715,ano the scots don't like the fact it was invented by an Englishman, but then I'm English, from Lancashire, live with it, your problem, not mine! 😂
Mr Rawlinson inventor of the walking kilt which is similar to the modern day kilt but different to the kilt worn in Scotland in the 1600's - 100 years before the Englishman. Suppose youse will be wanting the Haggis anaw eh ? What aboot bagpipes ?
You may make the shift, unfortunately the rest of your family may not. My mother doesn't like the attention she sees when I wear my kilt.
No such thing as a Welsh or Irish kilt. Its a Scottish thing only gents👍
More like, how to look good in a piece of stupid looking clothing.