Like all of us, I've been asked the question more times than I can remember but, I did have one experience that went beyond the question. We attended a Christmas party a couple of years ago at the home of friends. Our hostess' elderly aunt was at the party and when Susan and I walked in and the aunt saw me in a kilt, she immediately walked over to me and lifted up my kilt while saying "What do you have under there?" (A lot of people got a good look at my upper legs, etc.). The hostess was horrified and the 'eighties something' aunt couldn't understand what the problem was since I was 'flaunting myself' by wearing a kilt and she was 'just curious'.
It was certainly an awkward situation but the rest of the evening went well and, of course, I avoided the aunt like the plague.
Nile
Simon Fraser fought as MacShimidh, a Highland chief… wrapped and belted in a plaid over the top of his linen shirt, like his ordinary kinsmen. He put a bonnet on his head, and stuck the Fraser emblem, a sprig of yew, in it. With the battle cry, A'Chaisteal Dhunaidh and the scream of the pipes, they charged to battle. "The Last Highlander" Sara Fraser
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