Who does and doesn't call it a skirt.

[kiltedwolfman]

Whenever I get the "skirt" tossed at me I shrug it off. Attempting to correct the comment is useless, the people who call it a skirt know it's a kilt so reminding them is pointless.
Luckily it doesn't happen often, and it's easy to deduce the character of the person by the comment. Friendly jokers notwithstanding ;)

[Nick the DSM]

well depends on who you attempt to correct. if you correct a friend of yours, they'll accept it but if its your own stubborn father- forget it!

[hospitaller]

I have only been wearing my kilts for a couple of weeks, but living in a part of the US where, even with a LARGE percentage of the population of Scottish-Irish descent (Louisville, Kentucky), and with bluegrass music blaring off speakers everywhere.....a lot of men still have issues with a guy wearing a kilt.

With that said, in 2 weeks I've noticed that:

Groups of men (of all ages and colors) tend to be more prone to making fun or being 'smart' about the issue.

Groups of women, on the other hand, tend to like it very much.

Individual men for the most part ignore (just to make fun when they meet their buddies), few approve of it.

Individual girls are similarly neutral about it, but when the few do approach, it is nothing but good vibes.

And of course I've had a couple run-ins with the few local bullies that fall in with the first group as mentioned above.

There is this one instance though, where I was walking to Walgreen's, 2 blocks from home. This young guy was walking on the opposite side of the street but on the same direction. I noticed he saw me and soon after got his cellphone.
I got to the store and im walking around the ailes and sure enough, the guy was in there too.

Stillon the cell phone, and I hear him say on the phone that 'the guy with the skirt is still here', so I don't know if he called his buddies to come en masse and give me a hard time or simply to 'come watch the show'.

Either way, soon as he said and I heard that, I walked straight to him (I'm 6' and 220 lbs), about 6 inches from his face and still on the phone I asked him where the guy with the skirt was, because I want to ask him a question myself.

He babbled something on the phone, hung up, took a step back and proceeded to tell me that he didn't mean anything by it, he'd never seen a guy with the 'irish skirt' and he was just telling his buddies about it. Sorry 'dude'

I stepped close to him again, told him that it is a kilt, from Scotland, and not an Irish skirt. And not to tell any other guy in a kilt, ever, that he is wearing an Irish skirt.

I patted him on the shoulder as I walked past him to continue my shopping.

About 10 minutes after I was out of there, walking on my way back and there the guy was again, on the other side of the street, this time sitting by his porch (I guess?) he gave me a little nod and that was the end of that.

One of the problems of living in a small town I guess.

[Kiltman]

To my ear the comment about a skirt sounds different from a woman than from a man. Yes, the guys are just too uptight and can't handle a kilt. The women don't seem to have that problem about my skirt or kilt, they just use the word that comes to mind. I don't mind either one.

[Standard]

A comment of skirt said in ignorance is forgivable, said for spite is another thing altogether. That being said, about the only on who calls my kilt a skirt is my brother-in-law, and I know he is just doing it to be ornery since my wife's family is Irish.

I did receive a pat on the shoulder and a very nice comment from an older (to me anyway) lady at breakfast at our hotel saturday morning of the Highland Games last weekend in Chicago when she told me she really liked my kilt as she and her friend walked past our table. It brightened my already cheerful day to have such a nice comment so early in the day.