Richard, glad to hear that you are settling in up there, and Good Luck for the future.

I get up north of the border a couple of times each year, always in THE kilt of course, and I have yet to encounter any resistance to my plain coloured and 'alternative' kilts any more than I have to the tartan ones.

Several years ago, when I first took a Utilikilt to Edinburgh, my B&B host advised against wearing it in the city after dark, so I took his advice. However, I have worn them on several occasions since then and have received only compliments - even in the pubs late in the evenings! The general consensus seems to have been that it is a brilliant idea to have large pockets on kilts!! My plain kilt suits have also met with the approval of the populace up there.

As for there being very few other obvious kilt wearers: well, I am now used to my kilts being almost the only ones I see in Scotland!