Kilt-friendly places?

**Tartan Hiker** · 25th March 06, 07:03 PM

Ozone...that's awesome!

Asheville, NC is probably one of the few places in the South that a guy in a kilt will receive very little attention...at least downtown. I can safely say that I can't stroll very far in downtown Asheville without seeing something much more unusual than a kilt. I guess thats why we are "The Paris of the South"

Malls, Wal-Mart, and the auto parts store...that's a different story!

**Paco500** · 25th March 06, 08:21 PM

Everywhere I've been in my kilt has been friendly. In Northern Virginia/Washington, DC, I see another kilted guy once every few months or so. Either dressed in formal attire or kicking around IKEA in a UK.

We have the "Scottish Walk" every winter in Old Town Alexandria, so kilts pop up quite a bit around then.

**Rigged** · 25th March 06, 08:27 PM

There's one other "kilt guy" in my neighborhood. We had a kilt night in Sunnyvale that went well in my opinion.

As anyplace, some people get it and some don't. I don't recall getting any negative comments, except for a couple of yahoos shouting from a passing car.

**Mithral** · 22nd April 06, 01:39 AM

Originally Posted by Tartan Hiker

Ozone...that's awesome!

Asheville, NC is probably one of the few places in the South that a guy in a kilt will receive very little attention...at least downtown. I can safely say that I can't stroll very far in downtown Asheville without seeing something much more unusual than a kilt. I guess thats why we are "The Paris of the South"

Malls, Wal-Mart, and the auto parts store...that's a different story!

Heh, yeah. Honestly, the only negative response (and it wasn't too bad really) I've had since I moved here was when I was walking through the halls at ABTech and as I passed out of earshot (or after she thought I did anyway) an older woman started saying to her friend, "Oh my god! Was he wearing a skirt? He was wearing a skirt." Annoying? yes. Anti-kilt? Not really. Most people here seem to like mine.

**The Wizard of BC** · 22nd April 06, 08:56 AM

I beg to differ with that other person on that other post but the friendliest place to wear a kilt is MY shop. It fact, it's my entire town. It is not unusual to see other kilted brethren here at all. We even have an official "Pipers Corner".

In MY shop we allow all forms of kilt wearers. Even if they don't adhere to tradition and wear those funny, striped and multi-colored things you keep trying to call kilts. Heck we even allow those who can't spell, and wear cilts.
You can wear your kilt into MY shop and be greeted with a cup of coffee and even a cookie. Even if you can't afford pockets in your kilt, and are forced to carry your 'guy stuff' in a tote sack around your waist, you will be welcomed.

I MY town I believe the city fathers have a bevy of ladies on the payroll who's only job is to warmly greet kilted men with "OOOHHHH, AAAAHHHH that's a nice kilt. Would you please walk in front of me?". And believe me, these ladies take their jobs very seriously.

Heck we're so friendly here I even, once, greeted a young man who didn't know any better, and entered MY shop in a kilt that CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, had two legs in it. I mean he was a very nice young man, but trying to cover your perverted deviency with lame excuses of having to climb ladders to paint his house. I don't know why he just couldn't admit to being wierd and put on his real kilt like all the rest of us.

So come to Victoria. Here we simply don't care for all those new-fangled fashions called "pants". He we know what men should wear.

**Iolaus** · 22nd April 06, 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC

I beg to differ with that other person on that other post but the friendliest place to wear a kilt is MY shop....

The gauntlet has been thrown.

**longshadows** · 22nd April 06, 01:24 PM

Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC

So come to Victoria. Here we simply don't care for all those new-fangled fashions called "pants". He we know what men should wear.

That settles it! The site for the 2007 XMarkstheScot.com convention is Victoria, BC. (Steve, can you fit all of us into your shop?)

Dreaming...

**Pour1Malt** · 23rd April 06, 01:05 AM

Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC

...greeted with a cup of coffee and even a cookie. ....

och lad! whit arr ya daein?

if ya come tae MY Guest hoose in yur kilt ai'll

han ya a dram o' single malt scotch!

[grumble mode] cafee an coo-kye's... bleedin'ell... [/grumble mode]

an fur less money than a kilt weel cost ya... ya can spen the nicht and I'll cook ya a full Scottish breccy- the morn'

**Southern Breeze** · 23rd April 06, 04:20 AM

Originally Posted by Pour1Malt

och lad! whit arr ya daein?

if ya come tae MY Guest hoose in yur kilt ai'll

han ya a dram o' single malt scotch!

[grumble mode] cafee an coo-kye's... bleedin'ell... [/grumble mode]

an fur less money than a kilt weel cost ya... ya can spen the nicht and I'll cook ya a full Scottish breccy- the morn'

I'm easily swayed by a good meal. I vote we have the 2007 XMarkstheScot.com convention here.