Wha's the old saying? "You have not converted a man just because you have silenced him."

That's a heavy handed way to say it but I've gotten that silent forbearance as well...that sort of "I'm not going to say anything now but when he leaves we have to talk about how weird he's getting" silence.

So...anyway...there seems to be that thing of people thinking that this is some kind of anguished cry for attention. Poor deluded bastards. I think that a lot of the folks around me have this idea...it's augmented by the assumption that middle-aged men have some kind of crisis going on that makes them do wacky things. I just had a fancy for a kilt and found that wearing it was fun and a nice change of pace...I wear jeans most of the time and a kilt some of the time...why these people think that it's a cry for help, I'll never know...but too bad for them. Actually, the kilt has sort of filled in a gap in the way that I dress...I was either ultra casual or ultra formal...now I have the kilt for those in-between events where I'd be considered disrespectful if I showed up in jeans and overdressed if I showed up in a suit. That doesn't stop some of the attitude but I have been known to say, "Here I am honoring your event by wearing my nice kilt and you have to give me $#!+ about it...thanks alot."

My advice: just carry on and act like it's normal...don't get into long discussions about it because it'll only make it more of an issue.

One of my "party lines" about wearing the kilt is this: look around...there are people wearing their pants down around their knees, people wearing their pajama pants and scuffs out in freezing winter weather, etc....these people actually go out in public like this...how does a guy neatly dressed in a kilt look relative to that? Gimme a break!

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