How does what "they" think affect what you wear?

[piperdbh]

I live about an hour away from Grandfather Mountain, and if I'm seen kilted in the summertime, people assume and/or ask, "Are you going to the Highland Games?" I think the proximity and the large Scots-Irish presence here have sort of tempered people to at least realize it's a kilt. Not everyone, of course, but the people who matter.

edited to add something I just remembered
Last summer I had the privilege of showing Mael Coluim around my town, and we stopped for lunch in a local over-rated eatery. He was wearing Caledonia; I was in Carolina, which look sort of similar, so it looked to a lot of folks like we were matching each other. As we made our way to our booth, I watched other patrons' eyes to see where they would look, and overheard a few folks saying to their lunch partners, "Must be Highland Games this week."