The kilt surely is the most social garment any person could wear

[Jimmy]

As this was the Scottish pipe band championship in Dumbarton last Saturday 16th May, I met with friends in the Three Judges in Partick on Friday night.
The bar staff are always very efficient and helpful but usually it is so busy there is little time for any conversation with the barstaff. Not so last Friday night when I arrived kilted, you would have thought I was a long lost friend as the faces of barstaff and customers welcomed me.
It was the same on Saturday night at the restaurant and karaoke after the contest, every one wants to talk to a kiltie.
You have got to remember this is the home of the kilt but Scots who wear the kilt now at the drop of a hat for football and rugby matches, parties and weddings just love to see anyone weraing their national dress.
One thing that has certainly changed over the years is the acceptance of the kilt being worn outside weddings and formal occassions, perhaps this is because so many young people embrace wearing the kilt

[Kid Cossack]

I think it's wonderful that this change, this revolution, this "revolving of the times" is taking place. Not only am I glad because I am a kiltie as well, but because I am increasingly concerned about our deracinated lives. We've accomplished so much over the last couple hundred years with the industrial revolution, but it's come at such a high cost. I'd like to think we're "reconnecting" with our history and our heritage more and more. (In this case, I'm obviously focused on kilts, but I think it goes further than that.)

Up the revolution!

[davedove]

I have always said that one cannot be shy and wear the kilt.

[KFCarter]

That's good to hear. I'm sure the issues attached to wearing a kilt here in the US are different that those in Scotland, but I do find the same, very positive response in my home town, whenever I go kilted to work, play, social events, you name it. So I think your title for the thread is right on the money.

[Dr Mac]

That IS a very encouraging report... I would so love to get to Scotland and see it for myself!

[Tartan Shortbread Jock]

The kilt is well respected at most places, you hear the odd story were folk are
sent home to change, sad very sad.
Glad your wore your kilt to the pub Jimmy, I do it all the time.

[Brandane]

It's certainly my experience that the wearing of the kilt is well received nowadays. However I remember my parents dressing me in the kilt for church as a young boy and the shouts of "kilitie kiltie cold bum" from older boys on the way home.

[Jimmy]

It's certainly my experience that the wearing of the kilt is well received nowadays. However I remember my parents dressing me in the kilt for church as a young boy and the shouts of "kilitie kiltie cold bum" from older boys on the way home.

That brings back memories but it is something I have never heard shouted for years. I suppose so many people wear the kilt in Scotland at some point in their life, the respect for the wearer is immense

[slohairt]

It does become something of a conversational piece. I always have people coming up and talking to me at events who wouldn't otherwise.

[JolyStNicholas]

I was in a tailor shop today and was asked why I wear a kilt.
when I told him it was my right and heritage I got the strangest look followed by a big smile. He then went about telling me of his family from Ireland.