I have worn both to Company functions Utilikilts and Wool tartan, I get a much better responce when i wear a wool tartan then a utilikilt, a good friend of mine told me once "To me the utilikilt looks more like a "cargo shorts" kind of get up; so you look like you couldn't careless about the function." I guess i understand his point, and i never really looked at it that way. Ever since then, I keep my utilikilts to the fun dress down relaxing parties and the more dress up occations get the "whole 8 yards".

on a side note, how cares what people think, if you are happy and you think you look good, to hell with everyone else