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

[Nighthawk]

Well, in Denver, it seems that the stereotype is that a man in a kilt is by default a bagpiper on the way to a gig. I could be in a modern kilt, wearing work boots and an Iron Maiden tour shirt, and invariably will get the "Are you playing somewhere today?" question. My usual answer is "Yeah, I play all the time. Never take life too seriously!"

[Morris at Heathfield]

Since adolescence I have yet to wear the kilt outside the context of a pipe band uniform, so I suppose what "they" might think does affect what I wear. On the other hand, I really don't yet have much to wear with my kilt that isn't pipe band regalia. Is that a reason or an excuse? I'm not really sure.

Then again, I'll be wearing white hose at my first non-gig kilted outing, so maybe I really don't care what "they" think.

(Although, to be honest, if I wasn't watching my money so closely I'd have a pair of navy hose by now, not so much because I care what people think as because I just think it looks better.)

Well, in Denver, it seems that the stereotype is that a man in a kilt is by default a bagpiper on the way to a gig. I could be in a modern kilt, wearing work boots and an Iron Maiden tour shirt, and invariably will get the "Are you playing somewhere today?" question.

Wearing such an outfit, I would think it much more likely you were in a rock band.