Need to know how polite you are to people who are....curious

[Sir William]

I have been wearing a kilt for about two years now and wear mine whenever I get the opportunity. I have to deal, as I assume you all do, with the odd questions and comments.

My question is..how do you handle when someone asks you "What's under the kilt?" Or when they think it's "funny" to say that you are wearing a "skirt". Are you polite, do you "play" along with the comment jokingly? What do you do? I am sarcastic at heart and I do not say what first pops into my head because it will be sarcastic. I also know that these people do not run into the kilted very often if ever, so I'm trying to bear with it.

Any advice or help would be appreciated.

Much depends on how the question is asked. Most people are just curious, having never met a kilted man before. To them I usually give a polite but joking response such as "shoes and socks".

I once had a woman ask me on a cold day if it was breezy underneath. She was wearing a skirt so I replied that she should know as well as I did. She got a startled look on her face and then laughed and said she had asked a stupid and inappropriate question.

For those who try to bait me by calling it a skirt (and its almost always a man), I smile and reply that its called a kilt and only a real man can wear one.

I ignore the drunks as I've no time to waste arguing with a fool.