What's the best reaction you've gotten to your wearing a kilt?

[Maclachlan]

I was wearing my Maclachlan hunting tartan heading in to a local grocery store to pick up some stuff for dinner and I noticed two young men who work at the store watching me. Despite the fact that I'm in my 50s and worked around screaming jet aircraft for many years, my hearing is pretty good and I heard one young lad whisper to the other, "Dude, he's wearing a skirt!" He was even more surprised when he found out that I knew his dad (a MacDonald) and that he should be sporting a kilt himself! Later that year I spotted the young man and his dad at the MO Tartan Day and both were wearing kilts!

[Woodsheal]

The gorgeous 20-something that kept wanting to dance with me at our last kilt-night. My wife was highly amused...!

[ctbuchanan]

My daughters used to perform Irish Step Dancing every March in several nursing homes in our area. Often times I would wear my kilt just for fun. On one occasion a women in her 90's approached me with tears in her eyes "I was born in Scotland and I haven't seen a kilt since I was a wee girl and my grandfather wore one - God Bless you." Made my day.

[Mark Stephenson]

My daughters used to perform Irish Step Dancing every March in several nursing homes in our area. Often times I would wear my kilt just for fun. On one occasion a women in her 90's approached me with tears in her eyes "I was born in Scotland and I haven't seen a kilt since I was a wee girl and my grandfather wore one - God Bless you." Made my day.

I had a very similar experience the first time I wore a kilt to my church. It was a Christmas Eve service. I had not been wearing a kilt very long and was still a bit self conscious. After the service, an elderly woman walked up to us. She too was from Scotland, and she too got a wee bit choked up as she said she could not remember the last time she saw a man in a kilt and how much it meant to her.

[HighlandLion]

"I was born in Scotland...God Bless you."

that about brought tears to my eyes!!

[Auldbuff]

I know it's an old thread but my experience was quite funny.My wife and I were at Eriskay actually on the Princes Strand, (where Bonnie Prince Charlie landed) it came on pouring rain so after I got soaked I put on my dress kilt which was in the car.On the way back to North Uist we stopped at the little museum for a coffee, a group of old ladies came in and one said oh theres a kiltie..whats your tartan.I said the 'Duke of Fife' she then announced to the whole cafe that I was the Duke of Fife....as I tried to explain it was my tartan she still repeated I was the Duke...so for 1 hour these charming ladies were in the Dukes company...

[ScotFree]

Actually, the best reaction I've gotten is no reaction at all. The first time I ever wore my kilt in public, I was really very nervous. What are people going to say? I don't exactly live in an area where kilts are common. A friend went with me for moral support. I was actually surprised that I didn't see a single person give it a second look. I had my whole spiel mapped out in my head as to how I would address any negative comments. It was rather anticlimactic actually. I've worn kilts a bunch of places since, and the only comments I've gotten have been positive. The only possibly marginally negative comment I've received to date, is, "Why would you want to wear a kilt?". My reply was simply, "Why not?"

[Laird_M]

Sunday at the Harpenden Gathering a lady stopped us and chatted about how handsome our two boys were and how the kilts suited them. She then took quite a few pictures of them as they were 'so adorable'.

[Iain Robb]

The best reaction I have ever gotten came in New Orleans a couple of years back. Walking down the street in my black-and-red Munro kilt, I saw an attractive young woman come out of a shop ahead of me and turn in my direction. She stopped, smiled, looked me up and down and said, "You are rocking that!"

[David Thorpe]

Overheard while filling my tank at a local gas station on my way to a St. Patrick's Day celebration, from a man to his wife, "Now there's a real Irishman."

From my four-year-old grand-niece as I inexcusably walked between her an the big screen TV, "You look kinda weird."