While walking around Ann Arbor Michigan on Boxing Day, an older gentleman approached me at a cross walk and proceeded to tell me that, as he had told other people moments ago, it was the ribbons on my socks that made it "morally" acceptable for a me to be walking around in a "skirt" in public. A simply replied that they where effective in holding the hose up and proceeded to cross the street. I never knew it was so easy to be morally acceptable .

By the way, Ann Arbor is where I first observed people waking around in canvas kilts. Although I had considered purchasing a kilt while in Scotland a few years back, this is what motivated me to start to research kilts as practical male garments. Ann Arbor is diverse and this just helps to show that pluralism is alive and well.

Rick