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

[nitrox]

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[Since1982]

I got a big box of new clothes I ordered from the Lane Bryant Plus size catalog yesterday and I've been all day trying the various garments on for my SO to see. I got 2 tiered crinkle skirts, one sky blue and one coral colored, a black twill straight skirt and a khaki twill str skirt that I bought in the "petite" size as all their models must be very tall. The picture shows them as being mid calf on the model in the "average" size. I bought one last month in the "average" size and it went to the floor so I sent that one back and ordered the "petite" that was supposed to be for people 4'11" to 5'3" but fits me perfectly to the upper calves and I'm 6'1". I also bought 6 slips. 3 white and 3 black ones. 2 are from ebay and are white and mid calf, 4 are from Lane Bryant and are those "snip for length" ones. They all come to my upper calf so no snipping is needed. I tried out one of the black ones last night under my Orange upper calf skirt at Bingo and it felt really neat against my legs. I wore a new turquoise T-shirt and new Birkenstock sandals to complete the outfit for Bingo. I also won $35. so it was a fun night. It was no different than if I'd been wearing trousers because the Bingo players are all used to seeing me in a skirt.

[skirttron]

I went to Stonehenge in a black kilt and modern top and trainers. No one said thing - they probably thought they had seen the ghost of one of the builders.

[me012247]

I tried out one of the black ones last night under my Orange upper calf skirt at Bingo and it felt really neat against my legs.

I told you, the nylon ones feel good on your skin

[skirttron]

Glastonbury today - I felt quite conservatively dressed in my black kilt and no one said anything. Most other people looked like witches and latter-day hippies.

[Mary Jane Boy]

I'm a week lake with my birthday/tartan day photo but better late than never.

I went out to lunch with some of my beer drinking friends to a local brew pub. As you can see I had a little more than lunch that afternoon but the best surprise was a beer glass from the Four Peaks Brewing Co., in Arizona!

The rubber chicken is sort of a tradition!

[Since1982]

Unlike most of you, I'm too chubby to be able to walk into a thrift store or regular store that sells skirts and buy one off the rack so...I buy online, mostly from Lane Bryant. I, last month, bought 2 twill straight skirts from LB that made my live in g/f Judy want one like them. So I bought 2 for her (supposedly) that were much smaller in the waist than mine, her's were to be size 30 instead of the size 36 that I wore, (notice the word "wore", not wear). When they got here, I opened one up and looked at them as I've been losing so much weight lately that the size 36's that I bought only a month ago are falling off me. As she was at the grocery store when they arrived I tried one on.....oooops....it fit perfectly.

When she got home, I asked her to re-measure her waist because I thought she was losing weight, so she did and said she gave me the wrong size to order that she should have a size 28...WHEW!!! So I immediately ordered a size 28 for her and 2 more 30's for me. Today and tonight when I go to Bingo, I'll be wearing "my" new size 30 black twill straight skirt and a black T-shirt. Too bad my new black leather Milano Birkenstocks won't get here until sometime next week and I'll be wearing my tired old vinyl loafers again.

[ChrisM]

Skip - Great work on the weight loss! Keep it going old man! (Pat on the back)

Out and about today I flew from Seattle to MSP to BWI, with several multi-hour waits in airports. Wearing black watch 30" kilt skirt, Eton jacket, necktie, socks & wingtips, handbag slung as a sporran. This is the outfit I described in my reply to Dasani elsewhere.

i received several compliments from both men and women. I think I saw one 20- to 30-something surreptitiously take my photo with her camera phone.

Chris

[Charlie]

I went to the tip - sorry, Household Waste Recycling Centre - this morning, to dump some garden rubbish. I wore a mid-calf denim skirt and brown suede shoes. It's the first time I've worn an actual 'skirt' out in public, I've always worn kilts or sarongs up to now. From a distance, the skirt could be mistaken for baggy capris which, IMHO, are dreadful things but, if perceived as the latest fashion, who cares?

The 'green waste' skip was at the far end, some way from where everyone else were unloading their unwanted junk. A far as I know, the only person to take any sort of notice was a young guy who works at the tip. He was sweeping up and slowly working his way towards me. I'm sure he's seen me before in a kilt...

I drove home the long way round, simply to enjoy the sensation of driving in a skirt. A short, but significant outing

Up to now, I've only worn the skirt around the house and garden. As others have said, when you are happy and relaxed with what you wear, it communicates to others. For me, the trick is to wear a skirt in private for as long as it takes for me to feel happy in it, and learn how to wear it, then take the leap and go public.

Charlie

[crfriend]

Today, well yesterday, actually, I was out and about in my black six-tier lower-calf length black skirt, dark blue vest, and pale yellow dress shirt. "Out and about" really applies to yesterday, too. Starting with lunch at the local "watering hole" The Wife and I proceeded to look at patterns and fabrics for a couple of tops for her and a vest or two for me, thence to a couple of nurseries (places where one can buy juvenile plants and shrubs), and to the "Home Depot" (a "box store" in the US that sells DIY home-improvement supplies and is killing the neighbourhood hardware-store). The upshot? Nary a single comment; not even any stares or blank looks, either.

In the early evening, I visited a co-worker (no, not "cow orker") who had brought my cell' 'phone home with him (I'd left it at the office, and he lives 4 miles away instead of the 30 it takes to get to the office) so I could pick it up. A one word question was asked: "Kilt?" A two word answer was supplied: "Nope, skirt." Interestingly, nothing else was said about the matter. We'll see what happens on Monday; he may decide to discuss it with the other blokes at the office, and if so, I'll just point 'em all at my personal web page which shows me on vacation in Florida, waiting for a rocket launch (New Horizons, on it's way to Pluto) on the beach, wearing my red skirt; my skirt-wearing is *old* news.

Today, I'm going to be wearing a simpler black skirt, red vest, white shirt, and black opaque tights to the RCS/RI Open House in Providence (RI/USA). If all goes according to plan, the local paper is going to be around for an interview with the group and get a perspective of what computing life was like before the dratted IBM PC came on scene 25 years ago.

[ChrisM]

Yesterday, it being hot (75-80F) I wore my Mountain Kilt around the marina pretty much all day.

The other liveaboards have gotten quite used to my skirts. Sure they crack the little jokes but it's all in amity. Yesterday we joked about how we really to try being "yachty" and wearing blue blazers and white Dockers and all that. They replied: "No Chris in your case you have to wear a white skirt."

It's all in fun and it's all in stride.

Chris

Err: The mountain kilt is difficult to maintain modesty in while sprawling around a sailboat's cockpit!

[veletron]

Hi

Easter Monday is not a public holiday in much of Scotland so I am at work. I have on my brown knee boots (with buckles etc), Denim midi skirt that falls to about 3" above the knee, 'invisible' tights (still a little chilly in these parts!), and a brown zippered top to match the boots.

I am probably 50% skirted at work, so its a non event these days.

Nigel

[dragonslain]

Today I am wearing a knee-length khaki green cargo skirt, a black tee and black tights. I went out this morning to do a little shopping and I didn't have any issues. After going to Target for the necessities. I went to a small mall to go to Barnes and Nobles and Half Price books. Before heading home I ran into Blockbuster to grab a few movies. Everywhere it was a non-event. Outside of the wise-cracking teenager, the crabby old geezer, and idiot that ran away from his village the majority of people either don’t care as long as you act confident.

[Since1982]

Just a small trip to the local grocery today. Wore my new upper calf length khaki twill tapered straight skirt, a khaki button front short sleeve shirt, my new black Birkenstock sandals. Got 2 comments, both positive. One from a young woman about 24 years old or so that asked me where I bought my skirt, she was about 200 pounds and complained that none of the stores in town had plus sized clothing. I told her I buy nearly exclusively from Lane Bryant online and the main reason my skirt wasn't a balloon type skirt like all the stores here in town sell for larger people was that I had altered it from an A-line skirt by sewing it straight myself. "A man that sews?" she looked at me in wonder, and said, I never heard of a man that sews..

I said, I'm not into wide skirts as I mainly wear them for comfort and back support and a wide skirt gives me no more support than trousers do. She said, I was going to ask you why you weren't wearing trousers, but was taken with how well you looked in your skirt, you're the first man I've ever seen in a skirt that wasn't a kilt. Don't you wear trousers too? To which I replied, nope! I've not worn any trousers at all ever since I decided to never ride a horse again. A HORSE?, she said, what's a horse got to do with it? I then explained to her that trousers were invented so men could ride horses without burning their bums on a horses back when only wearing a tunic in ancient Rome. Oh, she said, is that a true fact? Yep, today no one would be wearing trousers, including women if they hadn't invented them for riding horses in ancient Rome.

Well, she said, I have to finish my shopping, Lane Bryant huh? I'll check them out. See you! That sure is a nice skirt. Bye.

The second person was a man I knew from my fishing days. He sort of sidled up to me and whispered that he'd recently bought an Amerikilt on ebay and was afraid to wear it in public but now having seen me not in a kilt but in an actual skirt perhaps he'd wear it the next day to a local restaurant. I said, why wait until tomorrow? You can go home and change now...He said, OK, I will. I'll see you again, how often do you wear those? I told him I threw out or converted all my trousers to skirts long ago and didn't wear anything else now. He was amazed, asked if I got any nasty comments from anyone. I said I used to, but folks here were used to seeing me in a MUG now. . . . A MUG, what's that? So I explained to him what it meant. Did you make that up?, he said. Nope, there are thousands of macho men out there who wear skirts and/or kilts all the time, do you have a computer? Yes, he replied, my son has one. I told him to check out http://www.tomscafe.org and prepare to be amazed.

Here's hoping that he shows up and perhaps joins us. ~pray~

[gshubert]

Not working today, I wore a natural twill CitySkirt to the bank and some shops in the morning, and a calf-length khaki skirt on other errands in the afternoon. No comments, no problems.

Friday, accompanied by my wife, I wore my khaki Utilikilt and got two positive comments, one from a young woman coming out of the library as I was heading in, and another from a woman at the bread store. We were both surprised and pleased to receive those compliments.