Quote Originally Posted by Richard_D View Post
Also I live in a society that has never had men wear any skirt type of clothing. Live in finland by the way.

So my question is : How have you overcome the stereotypes and peoples laughs and pointings... I am bit shy from my character but still, like a said to my friends, "none of you can go outside wearing something like this and be proud of it... "

How do you cope?
I have only been to Finland a few times for business – and without a kilt, so I can’t tell for sure how the reactions shall be, but being a Dane I come from a country which like Finland has absolutely no kilt tradition and people therefore no qualified knowledge about how a genuine kilt looks like. Most do know, however, that kilted men have some sort of a bag on the front. Therefore I agree to the proposal that you should wear a sporran with your kilt.
If people in Finland are just as tolerant (or indifferent) – which I think they are - as are most Danes, Swedes, Germans etc, you should hardly face any problems wearing your solid coloured kilt in public. Very, very few will take any notice, at all. So you hardly need to cope. Just do it.

Happy outing!

GG