Kilts abroad

[QMcK]

I was in a public garden taking some photos for a photography project. A woman with a group of intellectually handicapped kids asked me to pose with them for a photo, which I did. I don't have a copy, though.

I was wearing that modified girl's kilt (still with buckles on the wrong side) and the bag I was carrying my camera in was a make-up bag. (I didn't know this at the time - it was just a bag I found lying around.)

Oh - did you let them film you? I'm assuming you didn't, by the way you said it.

[Stratherrick]

QMcK

Aye, they filmed me alright, all mists 'n' mountains!

Never did get to see the documentary/advert though.

Slainte

Bruce

[CDNSushi]

Mileage varies in Japan. Many stares, some giggles, few comments. When I wore it hiking/mountain climbing, I got a few comments (nothing negative) and had a few short conversations, including a wee nip o' scotch at the summit of the mountain, courtesy of a Japanese climber...

I did however have one poor Chinese lady (who must've failed social studies in school) think that kilts were Mexican and that I was from Mexico...　

[English Bloke]

Had a kilt on in Manchester Airport yesterday. Few sideways 'I'm not really looking' looks but otherwise no reaction positive or negative.

[Jock Scot]

One of the reasons that I don't wear the kilt more often here in Scotland is, I am sick, sorry and tired of having my picture taken.I am never rude and I have always obliged a request to pose with granny, the wife, the children, a coach load, a train load once, pretty ladies, not so pretty ladies and so it goes on! My word it is trying sometimes! Now if I had a pound for every picture I could----------------.

[Phil]

One of the reasons that I don't wear the kilt more often here in Scotland is, I am sick, sorry and tired of having my picture taken.I am never rude and I have always obliged a request to pose with granny, the wife, the children, a coach load, a train load once, pretty ladies, not so pretty ladies and so it goes on! My word it is trying sometimes! Now if I had a pound for every picture I could----------------.

Never had my picture taken wearing the kilt but I did get asked for a photo with Maw, Paw and the wean when I got back to the car with a nice salmon from the Tummel years ago. The only time I've worn it outside os Scotland was to a wedding when the photographer had the cheek to ask the "men in skirts" to line up for a photo.

[cessna152towser]

I wear a kilt almost every day in the south of Scotland and I have very rarely been asked to pose for photos with tourists.
I suspect the situation may be different where Jock lives in the Highlands as the tourists go north in the expectation that all men in the Highlands wear kilts and when they discover that kilt wearing is relatively rare then they just have to make an effort to find a real kilt wearing Highlander to be photographed with.
On my way to the Bridge of Allan Highland Games last Sunday, I stopped at Bannockburn motorway service area where I overheard an English lady remark to her young daughter "Oh look there is a Scottish person in a kilt......". Then she spoiled it with "but its not as nice as your kilt".

[Jock Scot]

Alex and Phil,there really is very little I can say!

[DizzyD]

I Have gotten quite a few reactions here and around Washington DC. Most include people asking if I'm Scottish or quoting a line from Braveheart. I enjoy it on occasion but it gets old. And sometimes, the more ignorant feel necessary to call me gay cause they don't understand its not a skirt... Then there is always the group who ask the age old question, "what am I wearing under it" in which I reply "your welcome to see for yourself."
Me being a larger man though, and one that looks quite rough around the edges, I always wonder what reactions I am missing; like if I were a clean cut man. Its not that I don't try, I Clean up well in a suit and tie but for some reason when I wrap myself up in that full 9 yards of great kilt I look very menacing. I'll get some pictures up eventually.

[cessna152towser]

I had a drunk guy shout over and call me gay and when I turned and looked round I saw he was wearing one of those modern fashion tartan kilts. I told him he had guessed wrong and I asked him what had given him that idea. "But you must be a poofter because you are wearing a black kilt" he replied.
Fair dos I suppose, I have seen a lot of black kilts in the gay pride march in Edinburgh but they are less commonly worn here in Scotland compared to tartan kilts, though it just goes to show sometimes other kilties can be our hardest critics.