I wear a kilt to church every so often. I've worn the whole coat and tie outfit in the evening for special events and now, as the bassist or drummer in the contemporary service I sometimes will wear it. The comments have ranged from "I've got to get my husband in one of those!" to "You can pull that off very well but my husband could never do it." I've discovered one of our associate pastors has a weathered McNaughton kilt but he refuses to wear it because he's afraid his friends will give him a hard time. The pastor always tells me I look so boring in pants ever since he first saw me wear one. Then I found out his son actually lives in Seattle, wears UK's and has started a church there. I think I remind him of the son he rarely sees when I wear it. I get a few skirt or dress comments but it's usually good-natured.

I think I've related this before but after Katrina I went with a group from my church to Mississippi to help clean up. We were in the very first group and we sent teams every week for months afterward. I wore my UK in the evenings so I wouldn't have to bring a lot of clothes with me and one of the men there challenged me by asking me how I used the kilt as a witnessing tool. I'm thinking, dude I volunteered to come down here and bust my butt to help you folks and you're worried about my kilt? I wear it to cover my lower body, not as a witnessing tool! How do you use your pants as a witnessing tool? That's what I'm thinking anyway - what I said was, "Well, it sure starts a lot of conversations" and I smiled and walked away.