The only problem I’ve had so far with owning a kilt is that I only owned one kilt. As much as I like wearing the kilt for general day-to-day use, wearing the same garment every day can get a little questionable, no matter how cool the garment is. Plus, laundry days pretty much necessitate going back to pants while the kilt is in the wash.
Luckily, this is a problem easily solved — I put in an order for a second kilt a couple weeks ago, and got the call yesterday that it was in! I hopped the bus out to the UK warehouse this morning, and walked out the proud owner of my second Utilikilt.
Where my first was an Original UK, this one’s a Mocker. The main differences are that the Original has a single back pocket and the Mocker has two, and where the Original has external cargo-style pockets, the Mocker has internal side pockets (more like “normal” pants pockets). They’re incredibly deep, too — as the saleguy told me, the aim is to “keep your junk below your junk.”
I’d wanted the Mocker style for a bit now, as I’ve been planning to go see a couple friends get married next month up in Anchorage, and while they were quite adamant that I should come to the wedding kilted, I figured the cleaner lines of the Mocker would present a more “formal” look. Of course, now the wedding has been delayed, but my vacation is still set — and it was a convenient excuse to finally get the new kilt. ;)
So, that’s two down, who knows how many to go? Ideally, I’d like to have at least one more of each of the Original and Mocker (so I can be sure to have at least one of each style clean at any given point for any particular occasion). I’m idly considering picking up one of the Survival kilts for those few instances where I go tramping about in the woods (a rare, but not entirely unheard of event) or just needs lots of places to put stuff, and someday when I’ve got a paycheck to just blow I’d love to pick up one of the leather kilts. That’s far in the future, however…
iTunes: “Sour Times (Live)” by Portishead from the album Roseland NYC (1998, 5:21).