Sounds similar to my trip to Italy this year when I went through the San Lorenzo leather market in Florence in my UK Mocker...I got asked over and over where in Scotland I was from, if my family was from Scotland, if it was an Irish kilt (after I professed to being part Irish -- along with a mix of other nationalities), why an American would be wearing a kilt if he wasn't Scottish...they all liked it but they found it to be VERY confusing.