I have, out of more-or-less nowhere (the recipients knew they were coming of course and gave me the OK) given made-by-me kilts to four guys who have never worn kilts before. I still have to deliver the Royal Stewart 5-yard to my cousin, when that's done, it'll be five.

My cousin is probably a success story. It's a tartan kilt and he's already gone out and bought hose, a belt and a sporran to go with it. Captain Jak and his X-Kilt prototype was a success story, though I haven't seen him for a while. He went out and bought a Stillwater Nightstalker, and has occasionally been seen at the Games. Dan the Brewer was a success story as well, he went out and bought a Stillwater Saffron kilt, hose, sporran, the whole kit and even came to one X Marks Burns Night. His X-Kilt got passed on to a young friend of Panache's, who presumably still wears it. So, three successes out of five.

The other two gifts are more-or-less failures. By this I mean that the guys have worn the kilts 2-3-4 times....like out to coffee with me for example.... as a way of saying "thank you" but they have now sat unworn in their closets for months, and I somewhat doubt they'll ever come out again. That kind of sucks, though I knew that one of the gifts was a total shot in the dark. The stinker is that he won't return it so that I can give it to someone who WILL wear it. I've asked 3-4 times. It's OK, that kilt was an experiment and didn't really come out all that well, but still. The other one is a pretty nice digicamo kilt, though I wish I'd done the belt loops differently. Maybe, MAYBE now that it's Spring, Stuart will strap the thing on, but I kind of doubt it.

For you who have given kilts to guys who weren't kilt-wearers, and who didn't really ask for them...just sort of spontaneously given someone a kilt, what's your "success rate"?