How find the guts to go kilted in a conservative community?

[Rex_Tremende]

It's more frightening in your head than it is on the street.

What you want to do is get to a point where you basically forget you're wearing it. That way, you'll walk around with ease and be relaxed, instead of walking around with the feeling that you're in your underwear.

I've found that (besides highland games) the least self-concious place to experience wearing a kilt in public is a nice restaurant.

To wratchet up enough courage to go out in public kilted for the first time, I chose to go out on a blind date to a restaurant in a town not quite an hour's drive away. I gave my companion fair warning. In return, I got encouragement. I discovered I enjoyed it so much, I was able to overcome any lingering fears I might have had about going out and about in my own community. Very quickly, I discovered two things: 1) a lot of people had a lot of good things to say about it, and 2) if I wanted to find people to give me funny looks, I only had to look for them; I stopped looking for them and suddenly there were no more funny looks.

Will you be immune from everyone who would go out of their way to say unkind things to you? No, probably not, but, in the end, what do they matter?

Regards,
Rex.