Told NO!

[Chef]

Ah, but the argument is not whether or not the kilt gets attention, it is about the intent behind wearing it. I get lots of attention when wearing my kilt, and enjoy both the good and the bad. The good, because even though I'm married I love chatting with a pretty girl. (Who doesn't?) The bad because it gives me the chance to make an idiot ashamed of themself. I don't, however wear the kilt to get that attention. I wear it because I like the comfort, and showing off my Scot heritage in a way that my big bushy red beard alone can't.

I never said that it was "the" reason people wear it, but I have yet to meet someone for whom that wasn't at least part of the reason and your comments help prove my point. The only possible exception might be when it is being worn as part of work (i.e. pipers). Now I do wear mine for my work and so it is my work uniform and I don't feel I wear it because of the attention it brings at those times, however i am willing to admit that wearing a kilt (when I don't need to) wouldn't be qite as much fun if it didn't garner attention. I also believe that there are at least several of the members of this community for whom the attention is a large part of the reason they wear a kilt. Not judging anyone but I think this is true based on many of the posts I have read

I fly several times a year and I can tell you that flying kilted beats flying panted hands down. There's no comparison in comfort. Definitly fly kilted.Dale

I also fly kilted, more from the necessity of arriving dressed for an event than for any other reason however. That said it is indeed more comforable. The down side is that in this day and age of greater security it can be a pain at times to go through the security screening. I had on incident in Chicago, where my number was the one called to be screened further, where they spent 10 minutes debating the procedure for pat-downs for a man in a "skirt"