OK, so I've heard and experienced the 'power of the kilt' on the female population but...
I called in on my Father in Law for a while recently whilst kilted. His neighbour's kids play on an adjoining lawn at the front of his house. As I left the house, one of the children, about 8 years old, took one look and ran hiding into the house. As she peered in disbelief from round the door jamb we had to take time to explain that it was a kilt and that men wear them with the rest of the kit.
I know the North-East maintains a hard image, and I probably would not feel quite so at ease walking kilted in Newcastle, but for an 8 year old kid to be scared of a man in a kilt???? What is really sad is that she has got to that age, an hour from the Scottish borders, and she had never seen one before!
You've seen the pics... I may be no oil painting but I'm hardly the woaded warrior either!! Anyone else harried the local population?
Phil