Upcoming first day outside..

[JimB]

Finland is a little out of my range of experience, but my advice is not to wear it until you have a sporran and some hose and flashes to go with it. Then it might be more recognizable as a kilt to those not used to seeing them.
Porrick hails from Norway and maybe he can give some better advice for kilting in that part of the world.
But anyway, welcome to XMarks and I am looking forward to seeing how your xkilt comes out.
And one more thing. Don't worry about the laughing and pointing. I'll bet it will not be like you imagine. I was scared to death on my first kilted outing, and now it's no big deal. I've never had a bad comment yet. When I do, and I know I will someday, I will just ignore it and remember all the comliments that I have already gotten.

[Martin S]

my advice is not to wear it until you have a sporran and some hose and flashes to go with it. Then it might be more recognizable as a kilt

Do you really think that people notice flashes, or pay more attention to anything, including sporran, compared with the way they look at the sk... , I mean, kilt?

My advice would be, if you feel unsure, wear a tartan kilt, that will be recognizable to most people in western Europe.

Don't worry about the laughing and pointing.

I'll go along with that.
What does it really matter what perfect strangers think?
Friends are different; one likes to have their approval, but, if they are real frinds, they'll listen to your point of view and probably come to accept it. The only thing is, don't make them uncomofortable by obliging them to go around in public with your kilt.

Martin

[McMurdo]

First off congratulations on the xkilt. I would agree with most all I have read here, this is my experience with wearing a kilt, I hope it helps.
When I started wearing a kilt a guy in my old apartment building was giving me the gears about it, saying things like nice skirt etc. I told him that it as a kilt, well he kept calling it a skirt, at first it really bothered me, however I came to realise that I could not change his ignorance, and why should I check with him about what I was to wear or not?
Well that was quite some time ago now, and I can tell you that the vast majority of times I only hear compliments on my attire.

I still dont wear a kilt everyday, but I am up to 5 or 6 days a week.

A funny thing happened to me the other day when I went into my local tartan shop (a dangerous place for me), I had been moving stuff from the old apartment to the new house, and so I was wearing jeans, well the woman behind the counter didnt recognise me without my kilt.