Guys, the final challenge for me awaits...

[swat88eighty]

Guys, as a homeschooled student, I haven't had too attend school in a kilt obviously. Well, I take a college course at the local Community college (Bucks County Com. College for those of you close to me!) and I am thinking of going to class tomorow, kilted. Now, before you respond, I can tell you that just the thought of this is turning my stomach in knots right now. It's a community college! The kids there all want to look "cool." So just think how I will fit in. If I do this, I believe I can go ANYWHERE kilted.
I am not so sure.
-Jonathan McCullough

[bubba]

Just do it. Go about your business and don't even think about the kilt. Behave as though it's the most normal thing in the world and others will behave the same generally.

[Andrew Breecher]

Let me be the first to tell you: You CAN go anywhere kilted! Your friends there will probably tease you at first, but they're your friends and will be cool about it in the end. Anyone else who teases you, just smile and let them, or try to educate them about the kilt. I've had good success just talking to groups of inner city kids who crack up when they see me - I just stop and talk to them about it. Maybe they just humour me, but we usually leave on very good terms. I've walked across the United States kilted, I've gone into towns of population 200 and I've gone into Washington D.C. and I live in Boston. You need a "who cares about them" attitude, but you also just have to realise that the ones who make the most fun of you are so caught up in themselves, and are so afraid of doing anything outside the "normal", that they'd make fun of anyone who isn't just like them (and isn't it a good thing more people aren't just like them!).

Good luck! Throw your shoulders back, raise your head up high, and do this thing!

Andrew.

[Rigged]

This is the first semester out of four that I haven't attended Jr. College kilted. I'm taking an EMT class and have to be in uniform.

I've had mostly positive experiences including a young woman who ran all the way across campus to tell me I was the sexiest thing she'd ever seen.

I've had a couple of nuckleheads make stupid comments. One was a football player coming off the field from practice. He made the usual "that guy's wearin' a skirt" comment. The quarterback recognized the Utilikilt and said he'd ordered one and was expecting it later that week. I got no more lame comments from the football players.

People who've seen me kilted in previous semesters seem disappointed that I'm not wearing kilts this semester.

Wearing the kilt out is never as bad an experience as we first imagine it to be. Once you're over the hump, it just gets better and better.

[Riverkilt]

Johnathan, Bubba and Andrew speak the truth.

Don't think about what the guys are gonna say, think about how turned on the girls are gonna be...

Keep notes of what comments, if any, you get...bet there are a lot more positive or curious than teasing.

Break a leg,

Ron

[Mychael Sporrano]

Good luck! Throw your shoulders back, raise your head up high, and do this thing!

I really like your attitude, Andrew! This is the best advice that you will get, Jonathan.

Mychael

[Jimmy Carbomb]

You'll probably hear NOTHING anyway. You would be amazed how often I go out in the kilts... even in YOUR neighborhood, and hear NOTHING.

Worst comes to worse... just tell them that you're in a local Celtic Band, and there's a gig later that night.

Works for me!

[Silverlake_Punk]

This is my only advice to you: to every twit that asks, "What do you wear under that?" you should reply, "Why are you so interested?"

[Magnus Sporrano]

I'm not too far from you. I live in Delaware County, work in Chester County, and spend a little time here & there in Philadelphia. I wear a kilt 3 or 4 days a week now. And I go everywhere in it.

The rough neighborhoods are the place where I get absolutely no crap from anyone.

The only crap I do get is usually from women and they are no threat.

Men may grimace but I rarely get anything more than that unless they are in a moving car and feel safe.

Most people don't care. Most reactions I get are positive.

The questions you get will be the same ones, over and over. Be ready with witty answers.

Are you Scottish?
Is there some kind of celebration today?
Do you play the bagpipes?
What do you wear underneath?
Why are you wearing that?
Nice skirt. (not a question, but sometimes deserving of a witty response)

I wear my kilt to the office, to the Acme, to the book store, out to dinner, to run out to grab a case of beer, to take my kids for a walk... etc, etc, ad nauseum.

Put it on, forget about it, be proud. You're not cross dressing. You've got nothing to be embarrassed about. You've now got the most comfortable scrotum in a one mile radius. If they only knew the comfort that you now know.

[cajunscot]

I work at the local Community College as a librarian as well as adjunct history teacher, and I have worn my kilt on several occasions since I started working there. As others have said, there will be always be a few knuckleheads, but most of my students, and certainly all of my fellow librarians were nothing but positive about it!

I had one young man make a snide comment about a "dress" as I walked through the halls to class one day, and I simply stopped and explained to him the history of the kilt, and how it was a symbol of my heritage. After a good 5-minute "kilt lecture" he realised he shouldn't have challenged me to "intellectual combat" and apologised.

So, I say wear it, and wear it wi' pride. Ignore the knuckleheads, and revel in the attention from all of your female classmates -- just don't tell my wife I said that!

I've talked about this before, but there are several of us who either work at a college or attend one -- we need to form a "Kilted on Campus" group!

Cheers,

T.