Self confidence boost? Definitely! Also, I have recently noticed that the younger generations of young ladies seem to be interested. I was recently waiting on the platform waiting for the GO train, (Local Government railway mass transit.) and these two twenty-something blonde lovelies approached me with the comments:

1) We just love your kilt!
2) Both of our grandmother's were Scottish.

I was of course, flattered, even though I was old enough to be their grandfather. We chatted on until the train arrived and parted as friends.