a month or so ago I was in the grocery store, looking for something that would actually taste good, and I noticed a woman with a young boy was trying to follow me without being seen. Not to break the illusion, I simply stopped and started looking at something while they past behind me. I heard the mother whisper "Go ahead, ask him" to her son, loud enough so I could hear. I hear the boy say in a very scared voice "why are you wearing a skirt?"

I turned and as calmly and non-intimidatingly as I could explained that it was a scottish kilt, a type of skirts worn by men in Scotland. I talked for a minute about braveheart ( something he might be able to assosiate the kilt with) and also how many police and fire companies have pipe bands. Once he heard bagpipes, it was over. His eyes about popped out of his head. His mom said he had heard them once at a scottish festival a year or two earlier, and he had always wanted to talk to someone who played them. He looked at me squarely and asked if I played them. I told him the truth. "Well, I can play them, but you don't want to hear it. I'm not very good at all" He thought it was vey cool, thanked me and his mom shuffled him off to finish their shopping.

from what I can see, once the kids have something to associate the kilt with besides a woman's dress, it is one of the "coolest" things they have ever seen.