I'm getting the urge to wear a kilt with a cowboy hat and boots!

Both in Scotland and in Texas!

Wait a minute - I already did about two weeks ago. But it was for an impromptu party and we were supposed to dress silly. It was the best I could do from what I had in my suitcase. (I will say I saw very few Texans wearing boots or cowboy hats, just like I've seen very few Scots wear a kilt.)

Seriously though, beyond my clan gathering and the Gathering of the Clans in Edinburgh this last summer, I wore a kilt several other times while visiting Scotland and only received positive comments from the locals.

Some wanted to know what the occasion was and I just said I liked wearing a kilt and where better to wear one then in Scotland. I had a couple of people say how they wished more Scots would wear a kilt for other than weddings, funerals, and the like. I even got a free dram or two, much to my wife's surprise.

But like Jock has repeatedly said, Scots are too polite to publically object. I got the usual looks of curiousity, but no evil-eye stares, and for the most part I would say most Scots I encountered just ignored me (or perhaps didn't really care).