I don't see many kilts on the streets of Portland even though there is a very large community of kilt wearers at the Portland Highland Games. I've seen a fair number of games attendees show up in trousers, change into their kilt on-sight and then change back into trousers before they leave. I don't get that.

When my daughter was an University in Seattle I would occasionally see people in Utilikilts and only a couple of times in traditional kilts. Everybody seemed to know about kilts and accept them, they just didn't wear them.

In the little town I live in there are still people who get "shocked" when they see me in a kilt. The local young men still feel the need to laugh, point fingers and make disparaging remarks on occasion, but for most people (especially the folks who know me) my kilt wearing is a non-event. I fear that I'm just considered an eccentric (or a degenerate by some) rather than a harbinger of a more enlightened way of dressing.

Jamie