While shoping at a business I have frequented off an on over the years, the proprietor greeted me with "Nice Skirt" and a smile. I noded approvingly. After he finished with a customer, he came over and said that but for the wife, he was dying to have a "kilt". Likewise, I have had other people I know in professinal circles comment on my "skirt" after seeing me at a concert or other event. I know that these people know the difference, and thus, I simpley respond politely, injecting the word "kilt" skilfully in the conversation that ensues. In both cases, a polite happy response was in order.

The ones who refer to my kilt as a skirt with contempt, I simply ignore.

At the end of the day, my attitude is adjusted favorably by remembering what a nice lady said to me at the Detroit Institute of Arts the other day after I volunteered to take here photo with her husband in front of Rodin's The Thinker. Her comment was simply "You look wonderfull."

Rick