Advice/support regarding attitudes towards kilt-wearing

[Beery]

...On over 4 years (and in Cincy - that hotbed of libralism ) I have never had a negative response to my face...

I think my problem is that I live near Boston, in Massachusetts, and while people here are liberal by tradition, they are very conservative (if not downright xenophobic) by nature. Basically, if you're a male and you're not sporting a beer belly, a tee-shirt, jeans and a baseball cap, the attitude is that there must be something wrong with you.

On the subject of my own attitude, I remain confident, and good humoured whenever I'm wearing the kilt, so it's not a question of my own attitude. But the humour is beginning to wear a bit thin - you can only laugh at adversity for so long. At some point you have to admit that it's a nuisance. With the giggling youngsters I can use my stock retort - a laughing "I didn't think it was THAT funny", but the older folks' icy stares are a bit harder to counter because I just don't know where they're coming from (except I realise they must spring from some sort of ignorance or prejudice - perhaps if someone could explain exactly what prompts icy stares, that might be of some help).