I was wearing my black denim UK in Berkeley, California last weekend visting friends. My wife noted that the friend's neighbor (a man) looked at me "as if I was crazy" but her comment to me was "He lives in Berkeley for god's sake, he should be used to seeing stranger things than that!"
Taking the friend's infant to the playground provided a teachable moment with two very young girls (under 4?) who came over giggling and wanted to know why I was wearing a skirt. I agreed it was a type of skirt, and explained about kilts in general. They took it all in, but concluded that it "was funny." I allowed that it fun at any rate.
The night before I wore an olive UK original out to dinner at a shopping center in the town of Emeryville. Its a very socially and ethnically diverse area, and there were no comments at all. The woman we ate with reported that at a software company she used to work at there was a kilt wearer in the IT dept. Sounded like he wore both modern and traditionals. Also dining with us were her sons --ages 14 and 21, and her mother, they took it all in stride.
Best regards,
Jake
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