What's the best reaction you've gotten to your wearing a kilt?

**LANCER1562** · 3rd June 12, 10:08 PM

Today as I was walking home from church a carful of twenty-something girls drove past me and one of the girls stuck her head out of the window and yelled "Ow, baby!" Needless to say that put a smile on my almost 50 year old face.

**cb750kman** · 3rd June 12, 10:19 PM

My 16 yr old daughter doesn't want to be seen with me in a kilt . Some people's kids.
I wear them anyway.

**Riverkilt** · 3rd June 12, 10:27 PM

I have two favorites. When I wore a kilt in public in my little town for the first time I was in our local True Value hardware store (Utilikilts woodland camo original). My 20 years younger than me boss saw me and broke out laughing so hard he couldn't stop - actually was doubled over with laughter. An interesting response since the year before for Halloween he came to work in full drag.

And from a stranger, was in Albuquerque and stopped at a supermarket to get some stuff. As I walked through the parking lot a drunken panhandler saw me and exclaimed happily and loudly, "Hey Switzerland!!" Don't think anyone will ever top that one for me.

**be da veva** · 4th June 12, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

a drunken panhandler saw me and exclaimed happily and loudly, "Hey Switzerland!!" Don't think anyone will ever top that one for me.

I don't know if I can top it, but being asked if I played the harmonica comes pretty close...

**Dale Seago** · 3rd June 12, 10:32 PM

Best reaction?

Okay, back in the days when I didn't even have a modern kilt yet (for whatever weird reason, I decided to start with the late 1500s and work my way forward from there), I went -- I thought -- to a Scottish event in Marin County north of San Francisco. I took along a couple of other Bujinkan instructor friends, a married couple.

Somehow I hadn't found out that the event had been canceled.

So we ended up going for brunch to a Marin restaurant, my friends in their civvies and me in my belted plaid with pampooties and dirk.

As we sat down, my friends told me "We were watching people's reactions as we walked to our table, and we could SO get you a date in this place!"

Then our waitress came, 20-something and lovely and starry-eyed and blushing, and thanking ME for blessing (her words) the establishment with my presence.

I thanked her for her kindness with a "Blessed be, and merry meet!".

We had a fantastic meal. As for the rest, well. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_cA1CRAmBA

**Dale Seago** · 4th June 12, 08:20 PM

Hmm. . .

My eyes somehow missed the typo in the title of the thread.

In that case. . .

Well, the best 'rection is still probably what I posted.

Unless it was the lass who told me at a Hielan' games that she'd love to get me off in the bushes and gift me with a (NATO phonetics here) Bravo Juliet under my kilt.

Alas, though, given that I was married at the time and that she (as my student) and my 8th-dan wife knew each other, that was SO not happening.

Originally Posted by Dale Seago

Best reaction?

Okay, back in the days when I didn't even have a modern kilt yet (for whatever weird reason, I decided to start with the late 1500s and work my way forward from there), I went -- I thought -- to a Scottish event in Marin County north of San Francisco. I took along a couple of other Bujinkan instructor friends, a married couple.

Somehow I hadn't found out that the event had been canceled.

So we ended up going for brunch to a Marin restaurant, my friends in their civvies and me in my belted plaid with pampooties and dirk.

As we sat down, my friends told me "We were watching people's reactions as we walked to our table, and we could SO get you a date in this place!"

Then our waitress came, 20-something and lovely and starry-eyed and blushing, and thanking ME for blessing (her words) the establishment with my presence.

I thanked her for her kindness with a "Blessed be, and merry meet!".

We had a fantastic meal. As for the rest, well. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_cA1CRAmBA

**Sharkblock** · 4th June 12, 10:48 PM

I was at a Jamba Juice today with two pals in a kilt and a black fatigue jacket and a gentleman approached me and asked me why I was wearing a kilt. I told me "Well, it's illegal to be naked." He chuckled a bit and told me he use to wear kilts when he was a boy and that he actually visited Scotland not to long ago and that the temperatures were actually in the 80F's! I also noticed he was wearing a jacket with the words "Saint Andrew" on it.

**dea3369** · 4th June 12, 04:51 AM

Best reaction: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, walking a few feet behind two ladies. Coming the other way was one of their frineds. They exchanged pleasantries. Then, after their friend was well behind me, both ladies turned to perhaps add a parting word. They never got that word out. A huge smile graced both their faces and, in long drawn-out words, sighed, "Heyyyyyy therrrrrre. Nice legs."

Weirdest: At the mall, two women (again) stopped me to ask if I was part of a group performing somewhere. When I told them I just like kilts, one asked if she could touch my sporran. "Ummmm. Sure, I think." I guess she was attracted to the leather.