I am usually quick with a comeback - too quick, at times. But today I was flumoxed by a kilt related comment.

I was at a meeting over the lunch hour today, close enough to the downtown core to allow me to run some errands there before heading home, on foot. I ended up walking some 30 blocks on this pleasantly cool (-8C/17F)and occasionally breezy day. Halfway home, I had just unzipped my leather jacket to keep from over-heating when I ran into a guy heading the other direction who stopped, grinned, and said, "I hope you're wearing something wooly."

I was wearing my Maple Leaf kilt, red Lewis hose, a red wool/cotton sweater, and a plaid wool scarf, as well as that leather jacket. That constitutes a lot of very obvious wool.

I just shrugged, indicated the kilt, and mumbled that "this is enough."

Was he just being facetious, do you think, or might he have been referring to underwear? Does anyone ever wear "wooly" underwear, with or without a kilt?