This is a rewritten post I made to the xmarksthescot forum July 23, 2008.
As short guys who wear Kilts know there are problems sitting down in a kilt. It's not the pleats as they are a miner aggravation that is easily overcome. However men come in different heights from very short to very tall. Regardless of height or weight a mans “stuff” (you know those things that so shock Americans if they are seen) are all approximately the same size. There are exceptions as can be seen by watching porn, going to a gym, visiting a nudist camp or going through boot camp but by and large all men are about the same.
15 years old, 6 feet tall , a new kilt and the world by the tail.
Not so with waist to knee cap distance. The distance between the navel or waist and knee cap varies widely. A man with a 24 inch length has a 6 inch advantage over a man with a 18 inch(me) length. The kilt gets shorter in back as he sits down and if he has any butt at all it gets way shorter. For a man of my girth (43-42-44 inches) and a butt it gets shorter than your “stuff”. Hot vinyl car seats can be painful. Don't sit on a glass coffee table while someone is under it. You will be exposed. Concrete bleachers are out especially in winter. Anything with splinters is out. Don't even consider outdoor furniture with an open weave especially the plastic kind that not only gets hot but loose things get caught in. You could end up with a chair hanging out of your kilt when you get up. Don't sit on a log with rough bark. Your really don't want to sit on anyones lap unless you know them well or want too. For those with long belly button to knee cap length this is not near so much a problem. They have other problems to be sure but it usually involves their other head and I mean the one that sits on top of their neck.
The problems with sitting for short guys are not insurmountable and can be overcome but even at my age I am still aware of my “stuff” at all times so sometimes I would really rather stand thank you.
Believe it or not riding a bicycle is OK and is actually more comfortable than shorts.
Riding a horse bareback would be fine in a kilt as well. I have not done that but I have done it naked. I mentioned that here.
and I assure you I have experience. I doubt I could sit a horse for more than a 5 minutes now without serious pain (hips) but for those 5 minutes I would prefer skin to skin. You become one with the horse. I know some will say that I must be some kind of nut case but don't knock what you haven't tried. I first read of this in "Sailing Alone Around the World" by Joshua Slocum. Of course I had to try it. This book is an excellent read even for a non sailor. I have read it several times and I get caught up in it everytime.
The problem with many Kilt wearers is they would get their kilt dirty. They exist to wear their kilt. I don't exist to wear any kind of clothing. I wear clothing to cover my fat ass and not get arrested so horseback riding, gardening, working on my bicycles or baking in a kilt works for me. When they get dirty I just wash them.
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50 years ago today I went to church. I went there to say "I do". Well it didn't work out as time went by and I am sorry for that but I have never been sorry we tried. The years of happiness and the accumulated memories completely overcome the fleeting pain. I have never known a finer woman and that is good because that trip to church intertwined our lives in ways that can never be undone. You see we have a daughter that is us and better than us.
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