First time on public transport

[scoutniagara]

I've traveled England and Scotland by road, tube and rail, kilted and bifurcated, from Portsmouth to Inverness with many stops in between, and never had a problem while wearing my kilt. I went shopping kilted, with the Glaswegians who visit Niagara Falls often, and I don't think I got a second glance at what I was wearing. Around the Falls while wearing a kilt, though, it's not uncommon for a tourist to want a photo of me kilted.

[Braemar Kiltmaker]

I'm not sure if a cruise ship counts as public transit, but I wore a kilt on a western Mediterranean cruise, and only got approving comments (and one request for a photo). That same evening, there was another fellow wearing his kilt as well.

Ron

[Troy]

can't imagine how riding public transport should be a problem except for that puff of breeze that accompanies an arriving train.

Previously, I have only wormn my kilt to private parties/get-togethers, Highland Games, and when I have been playing gigs. I have always driven to these events.

What worried me the most was the prospect of being entrapped in a big metal box (i.e. the train carriage) with a couple of hundred other people, some of whom could possibly be young inebriated guys (it being the Christmas party season) with "something to prove", for 45+ minutes.

The area I live in has a lot of trouble with young guys trying to be "gangtas" (there's even a group getting around calling themselves "Tongan Crips"). Now, while I'm a fairly big guy and am rarely intimidated, quite frankly, I don't want to be bothered by the anti-social dimwits

As it was, I received no agressive comments from anybody, mainly just looks and the odd admiring smile. A couplke of "woo hoos" and a "Yeah, I guess he's Scottish", from a bunch of schoolgirls (why wasn't I kilted 20 years ago!).

I guess it's all to do with the confidence and attitude one exudes when one is kilted.

[McMurdo]

I guess it's all to do with the confidence and attitude one exudes when one is kilted.

That, in my experience is exactly it. The thing that continues to amaze me is the amount of confidence donning my trusty old Gunn tartan gives me, perhaps it's because my kilt was given to me by my father, I'm not sure.

Good on you though Troy, the only way the general public will accept kilts is if they see them.

[McClef]

Good on you though Troy, the only way the general public will accept kilts is if they see them.

Even where kilts are accepted, such as Scotland, getting people to accept their wearing outside of "special occasions" can only done by people seeing them outside of such events.

And that takes people wearing them and edcuating people into ceasing to associate them with such events.

[Jerry]

Not that Denver is any massively bad place, but it does have a few rough areas, and I've never had any trouble while kilted, and I used to live in an area where gunshots were a regular occurrence (way *too* regular-you could almost set your clock by the 2am gunshots). There's actually a psychological effect on characters of that type. They seem to think "He's got the guts to wear that *here*? He must be one *bad* dude" That and they notice that the ladies look at you like a starving man looks at a prime steak...

Or at least that's been my experience.

I'm glad I live where I do. I too occasionly here gunshots at 2 AM, and have contributed a few myself. But around here, they are most always the result of someone shotting at a fox or coon that is trying to raid the chicken coop. The rare illegal shots around here are from spotlighting deer. Of course, I don't have to worry about "public transportation", because there isn't any. The foxes and coons don't seem to mind whether I'm wearing a kilt or not.,