Hi Dana

May take awhile, but we all know you'll persevere. When I first learned how to make kilts, I said to my husband that he would look _great_ in a kilt. The look of horror on his face was, well, you know...

My daughter and I just kept taking him to Highland games all summer, and, at the last games of the summer, we said to him, well, just tell us when you see a kilt you like the look of. Lots of don't like that, don't like that, that's awful, and then....oh - I like that one. We bustled him right over to one of the vendors and got him to look through tartans, hypothetically speaking, of course. Took another 6 months before I got him to let me take his measurements, but it was still hypothetical - he still didn't want me to actually order the tartan. Too late for a short story, but he now has a couple of kilts and happily wears them to games. He still doesn't wear them in general. Maybe someday.

So, maybe one strategy is to take your wife somewhere where she can see lots of people in kilts so that it becomes something that isn't so outre.

Best of luck!!

Barb