Quote Originally Posted by Al G. Sporrano
I don't know if my traditional-looking kilts get more acceptance or not. 99% of the time I'm out kilted I don't hear any comments at all.
It is very much the same for me, Al.

Today I went over to an older couple's house to look at some coins they were thinking of selling. I was wearing my black original Utilikilt. The lady said "Very nice kilt, are you Scottish?" I've never had my UK referred to as a "skirt", except from a few close friends who were just razzing me a bit.
Again, just how it is with me. One female neighbour who is slightly older than me, if that's possible, always refers to my tartan kilts as "kilts" and my plain colour contemporary kilts (even TFCKs) as "skirts". She means no harm as that's the way she sees it, and I make no effort nowadays to correct her. I am in no way offended. My neighbour and her cronnies see nothing wrong with me wearing a "man-skirt" and have told me so!!

Also, I have noticed that when I am out in public wearing a plain kilt, with another guy in a tartan kilt, it is invariably the other guy who gets all the attention and the compliments! I have put this down to the fact, and this has been upheld by many of those paying the compliments, that the tartan is so much more eye-catching than a plain colour, no matter what the style. Often, the stranger has assumed that I was wearing shorts. On those occasions when the two of us are wearing tartan, the compliments are generally directed at both of us.

It does not appear to be a matter of "acceptance", just one of interpretation.