First of all, I'd think that in the South, where a whole lot of the Scots and Scots Irish settled, they'd be a little more receptive to kilts.

Second, it cuts both ways. When I worked for a large insurance company a while back, we had national training seminars here in Chicago. This brought the gang from our Southern Division up here...and they dressed a whole lot different from the pinstripe navy blue suit dress oxfords types from our division.

One of the managers from the Southern Division wore a green suit...and I'm not talking Hunter Green...we were getting seriously close to Kelly Green...not the sort of thing that I was used to seeing in a business environment and I made a flippant comment that I thought was in jest but that he took as an insult. One of the old secretaries had to stop and explain to me that this was just the way it was...that the guys from the South just had a different approach to their wardrobes and that that was just the way it was...it was a CULTURAL thing and she basically said, in a very nice way, that it was not given to me to judge. I apologized and things were all right but I'll never forget the lesson of that day.

So in a world where people are wearing their flip flops to the White House and all year long...and they're wearing baggy cargo shorts for casual friday (can we go back in time and kill the bastard that came up with that concept?)...who besides a small minded wonk feels that they have room to comment? Good Lord, I was convinced that the whole thing was going to hell in a handbasket when people started showing up at funerals in their blue jeans!

So keep it up, creativeA, the odd compliments are worth all the grief. Maybe someday one of the sniggerers will come back and apologize for being so small minded much as I did with that fella years ago.

Best

AA