Scottish outlook on kilted Americans?

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Now that I think we've gotten past the other stuff, I'll respond to OP concerning my observations when I visited Scotland in May/June of this year. I only wore my kilt on two days. One of those days I was having lunch at my clan chief's house, so I can't think of a better excuse as to why one is wearing a kilt in Scotland. On that day, we visited Doune castle and stopped at a roadside woolen mill. Like previous posters, up to this point, four days into my trip, I had seen no Scots and only one Asian fellow wearing a kilt. He was wearing a purple tartan kilt about mid-calf. At the woolen mill I saw a Scottish fellow selling something in t he parking lot. He was the only Scot I saw, other than my chief, that was wearing a kilt the whole trip. The fellow's kilt was a plain black kilt with black hose which he had pushed down "like air conditioning" he said. He was happy to see me in my kilt.

The second B&B I went to in a kilt, I was met by the proprietor who was surprised to see a kilt and asked about it. I explained I'd just come from lunch with the chief and he seemed even more flabbergasted at this possibility. I was kilted on my trip from Oban to Stirling and then wondering about Stirling and at the car hire in Stirling. Got a positive reaction from the car hire lass, but she may have just been flushed from the apparently famous Scottish footballer standing next to us trying to hire a car.

All in all, I wouldn't recommend going kilted in Scotland unless you have a particular purpose for doing so. Which is pretty much how I treat it here. Wore it for the Scottish walk yesterday. Had to stop off at the market after and did get a nice complement there. I'm fairly immune to whatever looks I get, I usually don't notice. So there could have been those in Scotland and I just didn't take notice. I'm going to the Lochearnhead games next year, other than that, I wouldn't be bringing my kilt.