I have to say that in my experience, wearing a kilt in less-than-receptive company challenges their notions of you. It makes them less sure of their world; it makes them worry that there is something 'wrong' with you that they won't like; it makes them less in control of what is going on around them. And the retaliate.

Now, we all know that people who don't know you much will tend to either ignore or enjoy the anomoly, unless it somehow antagonises what they think 'normal' is supposed to be. It's people who do know us who can make it all so hard, unfortunately.

Wade.