So, to preface, I work at Macy's in the shoe department.

Yesterday a gentleman and his wife came in to find some black shoes for the husband. He came over with a standard black shoe, and asked for his size in the shoe. I told him I'd go see if we had it, and was about to walk away, when he said "Yeah, I'm going to be in a scottish-themed wedding, so I need a shoe to wear with a dress." He said this jokingly, and his wife kind of looked at him oddly, then said "Honey! It's a skirt, not a dress" to which he responds "Yeah, sorry, a skirt."

So I just laugh along initially, then went up and grabbed the shoe for him. When I came back downstairs, he made the comment that he wasn't really sure what type of shoe he needed, as the groom had told him to get 'brogues.' So from there I mentioned my association with kilts, and went on to have a good 20 minute or so conversation about kilts and other scottish-related things.

After he got passed the initial "eh, yeah I'm wearing a skirt" with me, he then got all excited about it. "Yeah, we're going to be all dressed up with the whole gig. We're going to be packing knives and everything, man!"



It was great to hear someone who doesn't normally wear a kilt so excited about doing so.