Australian Army to ditch the Kilt...!

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I have to say that I'm not surprised. From my experience, Aussies have simply not picked up kilt-wearing like the USians have. There might well be an element of the population size to that, plus a quite different attitude to being "one of the group". In the US, you are much more likely to get a stranger coming up to you and saying something because you are kilted. Aussies will not, as a rule, do that; there has to be another reason to talk to you first.

Wade

Couldn't agree more. People here stare a lot but mostly talk amongst themselves about "the bloke in the skirt".

If I'm with the dog - I usually am - they'll pat him and make their introductions that way. Only then does the kilt get mentioned.

Edit - Also, I find that soldiers in the Australian army are some of the least tolerant of kilts, ironically. Officers tend to be more polite. I just spent the weekend in Sydney with the family. Right next to the Moorebank DNSDC. Tolerance was next to zero. Outright hostility abounded.