Utilikilt peer pressure

[bjarvis]

My friend Jeff is stepping up the pressure to get me to buy a utilikilt. Dunno why, he just thinks I'd look good in it. Knowing Jeff, that may just be his subtle way of saying the rest of my wardrobe really sucks.

His latest e-mail included the winners of the utilikilt promo contest. Skip the first three (they're kinda lame) and go directly to the winner at the bottom of the list. Not badly done at all.

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[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

Of course, what guys who really evangelize utilikilts don't notice, is how awful well over half the guys who wear them look in them. Especially the short ones that look like "GI Barbie cheerleader camp" and the wrong shoes always make them look stupid (unless you are -trying- to look like you are going to a sock-hop for nelly truck divers....) Guys who can pull off a construction worker look do okay (i.e. you could pull it off if you wanted to) but most guys look like...I can't remember the characters name. Remember the first season of the series "Wonder Woman" when it was set in World War II, the dumpy woman in the WAC uniform who was the friend of Wonder Woman's secret identity's? Like that.

[bearfuz.livejournal.com]

Etta Candy?

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

That's it!

(my teeth glinted as I smiled...)

[bearfuz.livejournal.com]

It's the legs.

And the fact that simply asking you not to wear clothes at all is probably not an option.

[otterpop58.livejournal.com]

bjarvis has great legs. otterpop58 is filled with kilt self-doubt :(

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Thanks, but I think you'd be better in a kilt than me.

I'm not sure it's about the legs. To me, it seems to be more about the particular style of masculinity rather than any particular physical feature or attribute that allows one to pull it off (so to speak) successfully.

There are three guys I hang around with regularly who wear kilts. A kilt just doesn't work for the tiny blond queen from our happy hour crowd. It does work very well for the tall furry guy in the same happy hour group and for one of our broad-shouldered bearded square dancers.

Whatever the combination is, I doubt that I have it, and unless I have a chance to try one on gratis, I'm not spending a pot o' cash on this kind of experiment.