I failed to find the thread where one of you some tima ago asked about kilt+friendliness in York...

Anyway, I'm York at the moment, and went about kilted last evening/night. I only overheard/encountered two references to me being kilted.

On my way to meet someone, I overheard "hey, a kiltie" - but didn't have time to turn around to see where it came from. On my way back a few minutes later, I found the comment came from an older fellow in a wheelchair. He left Scotland as a boy, and was delighted to see a kiltie. He was appologetic that he couldn't recognize the tartan. On learning it was the IrishTara/Murphy, he was puzzled as he wasn't aware of Irish tartans. His same-age friend could tell him about the spreading traditions - which both approved of.

The other incident was out with friends at 1 AM: an animated and tattoed local called out "hey Gordon, where are your trousers!?" I was tempted to respond "in your wife's hand bag", but settled for "why do you want to know?" Local response was "you've got guts. Enjoy York!"

Apart from the two incidents, no stares or comments reached me, and life went on as normal for everyone.

PS
Pour1Malt: if you happen to read this, I'll be leaving York by 1 tomorrow, and heading directly for Dumfries.