Let me be the first to tell you: You CAN go anywhere kilted! Your friends there will probably tease you at first, but they're your friends and will be cool about it in the end. Anyone else who teases you, just smile and let them, or try to educate them about the kilt. I've had good success just talking to groups of inner city kids who crack up when they see me - I just stop and talk to them about it. Maybe they just humour me, but we usually leave on very good terms. I've walked across the United States kilted, I've gone into towns of population 200 and I've gone into Washington D.C. and I live in Boston. You need a "who cares about them" attitude, but you also just have to realise that the ones who make the most fun of you are so caught up in themselves, and are so afraid of doing anything outside the "normal", that they'd make fun of anyone who isn't just like them (and isn't it a good thing more people aren't just like them!).

Good luck! Throw your shoulders back, raise your head up high, and do this thing!

Andrew.