I've had a few particularly pleasant interactions during my current vacation period. To start, my brother-in-law, a rather straight-laced police officer from Florida came to visit. I explained that I'd taken to wearing kilts, and he expressed some interest. I wore my UK out with him and the family one night shopping and to the movies, and he said he thought it looked good, and not much different then wearing shorts. The last night he tried on my SWK, and said he might pick one up some day.

I wore the aforementioned SWK to a my wife's manager's Holiday party, with all the bells and whistles, and her manager raved about it and thanked me profusely for wearing it to her party! An English woman there asked if it was a heritage thing and reminisced about Scotland and kilted skirts.

I'm currently at a hotel in Carlsbad, CA taking the family to Legoland. Wore my new brown UK Workman today, and a woman came up to me at a dinner to thank me for wearing a kilt, and talked about her recent trip to Scotland! In the hotel parking lot a man with his family said the kilt was "awesome" and the he wished he could wear something like that to work. (I told him that some of you did.) Lastly, a middle aged Hispanic woman with her husband said she liked it and asked were I had purchased it, so I passed along a UK card. Nary a discouraging word has been heard (although there were some startled glances )

I'll post some pics when I get home, and let you all know if there's any more interesting encounters.

Best regards,

Jake