A fraternity brother from a small town bragged about how all the guys in his senior class of high school called the local shoe store and asked if they carried saddle bucks with red lining. Wasn't long before the front window of the shoe store displayed saddle bucks with red lining. Sadly, it was a contrived and cruel project and the merchant suffered.

Merchants try to be sensitive to fashion trends.

Since our Super WalMart opened in our little town I've endeavored to support the local merchants against the monster. But there's no denying that WalMart carries stuff the locals don't. So I go there.

But most every time I go there, when I check out, I ask, "Do you carry kilts? I'm looking to buy a kilt and I couldn't find any in the men's department.?" Of course I'm kilted when I say this.

What would happen if a thousand of us in WalMart's service areas (and others with similar stores in their areas) asked the same type question whenever they were shopping there?

Would we be enought that the word would filter up to the WalMart fashion gurus that "men are asking for kilts?"

Would anyone actually buy or wear a kilt WalMart stocked? Would WalMart offering kilts bring new men into the fold?

It ain't that far from REI stocking a hiking kilt to WalMart stocking a knock around kilt.

What would happen if a LOT of us asked each visit?

Ron