Perhaps the knees rather than the kilt ?? ;-)

Have had the same thing happen, only more understandable...when I go kilted to Colorado City, Arizona - a polygamist enclave - where they still wear old west pioneer clothes and the females of all ages wear jeans under their ankle length dresses.

For them, a long haired, bearded, tattooed old guy in a tank top, kilt, and sandals is a combination of blastphemy and the devil incarnate. Have scattered a dozen polygamist kids across a field like chickens fleeing a fox.

And, pleas of, "Its all right" just don't cut any slack with them.

Ron