Hi Longforgan,

I return to Scotland on average once a year. Admittedly, this is usually to Edinburgh (where I have only once had a reaction that stuck in my memory: a young local guy in a pub on The Royal Mile told me I had more guts than he had to wear the kilt. By chance, we met again in the same pub the next evening, when I was wearing a 'Workman's' Utilikilt. This chap absolutely loved it and wanted all the info. so as to get one for himself. Strange that this young Scot had a problem with a tartan kilt, but not an American Utilikilt!!

Apart from in Edinburgh, I've worn all forms of kilt throughout the Highlands and other areas without any problems. Again only one reaction from those travels sticks in my mind: whilst in a supermarket check-out queue in Elgin, a young lad of about five caught sight of me and called to his mother, "Look Ma, there's a Highlander!"

It is said that is you see a kilt being worn on the streets of Edinburgh, on a weekday, the wearer will be a tourist or a busker. However, I do know several residents of the Capital who wear the kilt on a daily basis.