Any suggestions for wearing a kilt in public for the first time?

[Knight]

I "debuted" for lack of better words my kilt to my friend/D&D group back in October. Until then, I'd only ever worn it around the house in front of my wife. She seemed to be into it, so the phobia of "being seen in the kilt," or impostoritis, or whatever it is one suffers when changing styles was mitigated pretty quickly. My friends laughed at first, but we were all inebriated (3 hours of D&D does that to a body). I took a seat, as the DM, and then proceeded to punish the party with a cripplingly difficult fight, which, if they connected to the ribalding, no one ever commented on. The next week they asked me to wear the kilt--and my ranger/barbarian combo player asked to borrow a sport kilt. So we wound up duo-kilted. Within a month, he showed up in a cargo kilt from UT Kilts, and now it's the norm for hot days and D&D nights. Weird how, from a very private mode of dress, almost pajama like, the kilt became a social event and semi-expectation from my friends.

It was definitely weird at first, like trying to ice skate, but after the first few "outings" you learn to ignore the curious stares or remarks, and, perhaps because of the confidence, you get compliments, which is nice. So my suggestion is to just do it, get on the ice, take your lumps, and soon it'll be reflexive.

Addendum: I'm hearing impaired, and I have a querrelous relationship with my hearing aids. My particular breed of hearing loss is very difficult to correct for, and since it's nerve damage, amplification is the only current option on my menu. The amplification often fails to amplify the sounds I need/want to hear, but still generally amplifies everything. In the classroom, this is helpful, because I can hear discussions. In public, it's a bit stressful, because everyone is loud. So I often don't wear them unless I know I'll need them. As a result of me not wearing my hearing aids, I often fail to hear questions/compliments/comments, and only learn about them after the fact from my wife. So it's possible I'm attracting negative attention and not realizing it, but frankly, I don't care. Too busy being comfortable to bother with potential negative nerberts.