Let’s be realistic. Most likely, you cannot wear a kilt 24/7, even if you should want to. Probably your job should be an obstacle. Due to conventions or dress code. Accordingly, the kilt must, like shorts, primarily be something for your spare time. Here, however, you have free rein; provided, you have your spouse’s support.

If so, you have 52 weekends a year, making 104 possible days. Add to this holidays and other day’s off and you have a potential, exceeding one third of a year. Just because you consider your kilt a casual-first thing and not an event-dependent phenomenon, like will most kilt wearing Scots.
If you, like me, live about 56 degrees north - same as Edinburgh - you’ll in spring and summer have these fantastic light summer nights making it possible to wear your kilt for hours in daylight before and after job. Out in the open or in town. And on business trips before breakfast and meetings. What is more fascinating than seeing a city waking up?

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You can wear your kilt when taking your dog out, 2-3 times a day, every day year-round. I do. And believe me, your neighbours shall soon be accustomed to seeing you in a kilt and wonder-why anytime you are in trousers.

The DIY market and shopping mall and electronic store and garden center are obvious places to wear a kilt too. And for out and about in landscapes and cityscapes a kilt is the perfect choice.

Kilt Stewart Royal tartan, restaurant

Having a coffee, Ready-made 3-yard kilt, Stewart Royal tartan.

In the street, 5-yard wool kilt, Caledonia tartan.

Thpmpson Camel.

Taking the dog out. A few hundred metres from home. Kilt, 3-yard Thompson Camel tartan.

Kilt, MacGregor tartan.

Concert hall. 5-yard wool kilt. Gunn Ancient tartan.

Also, when shopping grocery, having a haircut, going to a bookstore, and driving your car to inspection, wearing a kilt is great.

A utility kilt, or a worn-out traditional kilt, replacing jeans or shorts, is great to wear working in the back yard or when driving to the recycling center.

On vacation in a kilt

When on vacation, long or short, whether in your own country or abroad, bring one or two kilts with you; and wear them. At the breakfast restaurant, when going sightseeing, visiting museums or art galleries, having lunch and dinner, they are perfect.

Kilted on Manhattan, New York City.

5-yard Kilt. Gunn Ancient Tartan, Hälsingborg, Sweden.

3-yard kilt, Stewart Royal tartan, Copenhagen.

5-yard kilt, Campbell Ancient tartan, Tokyo.

5-yard Kilt. Colquhoun tartan. At the Danish North See coast. A German Bunker from World War II

5-yard Kilt. Holyrood tartan, Rome.

4-yard Kilt. Hamilton tartan, Museum Quarter, Vienna.

5-yard Kilt. MacGregor tartan, Amsterdam.

By the way, have you noticed that above mentioned situations really are, with a few exceptions, all about casual and smart casual wear, where an affordable kilt and a few accessories shall more than do? Where a 5-yard medium or light weight kilt shall feel much better than an 8-yard “tank”?

Also, when travelling by flight, lightweight kilts are, for obvious reasons, to prefer over heavy and bulky ones.

Closing remarks

When in a kilt, stand up to it, whatever type of kilt is in question. It has been your decision, your choice. Never try to excuse that you are wearing it. Never look guilty or like had you a bad conscience. It is different, yes, but certainly not a crime. Wear it with confidence.

Traditional kilt, 5-yard, wool, Farquharson tartan.

Kilt Yes, but how about other skirted garments, in other words skirts?

If you know, a skirt could never come in question for you, don't spend time on the next page and go directly to the gallery pages with hundreds of pictures.

But could you imagine situations, where a skirt might be preferable over a kilt or it just coming in question for even more variety, you might find the next page worth looking at.

This page was revised 2025, February 11.

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