So have you ever been afraid to wear the kilt.

[kilty]

Not really. There are certain parts of town that I would not venture while in or out of a kilt unless I was packing.

[The Barry]

There's an area around UW that is notorious for armed robbery and the like. I'm a little apprehensive there, because a kilt, ghillies, and an argyle jacket isn't the best hand-to-hand combat wear. But I've never actually had a problem, and it's usually teenager wannabe thugs, so they don't like my "grown man" stature.

[Good Egg]

There's an area around UW that is notorious for armed robbery and the like. I'm a little apprehensive there, because a kilt, ghillies, and an argyle jacket isn't the best hand-to-hand combat wear. But I've never actually had a problem, and it's usually teenager wannabe thugs, so they don't like my "grown man" stature.

Tell the 'Damen von der Hölle' that the kilt is not good combat wear! A kick in the particulars with a good stout brogue backed up with sgian dhub should be enough to send most ne're do wells running unless they are carrying fire arms in which case take the mess Webley or have your man bring his .303

[sathor]

Although I am loath to admit it, I was, ahead of time, scared to wear one into Hustler Hollywood, I rarely go there, but anyways. Oddly, the fear of going in with a kilt negated the apprehension of going in in the first place. Of the times I have been in there (3 times in 5 years or so) it was the first time I wasn't nervous in there.

[JolyStNicholas]

Me walk'in stick is made from fine "Hickory", and I really know how to use it, and have had to a time or two, just to adjust and attitude a bit, it has yet to fail me, but I try very hard not to get into that type of situation if I can. The years have made me much smarter than I use to be.

[YoungMan]

Having attended school in rural Indiana and east Tennessee, I will say that although I've never been "afraid" to wear my kilt out, there are times when I think to myself "Do I really want to put up with it tonight?" Attention from women is most certainly welcome, and I'm happy to entertain polite curiosity, but having some drunk try to lift my kilt at a bar gets real old, real fast. They'll probably piss off when confronted, but sometimes there are more drunks than patience and the night just feels ruined.

[Jaggy thistle]

I have never been afraid to wear my kilt I can honestly say that in 50+years of kilt wearing I have never had any real hassle . Now tell me what is this Wallmart which seems to be such a dangerous place ?

[Good Egg]

I have never been afraid to wear my kilt I can honestly say that in 50+years of kilt wearing I have never had any real hassle . Now tell me what is this Wallmart which seems to be such a dangerous place ?

Wallmart owns ASDA - but in the US they sell guns and ammo as well. I've been to a few and they've never seemed dangerous to me.

[Kid Cossack]

The first few times I wore a kilt, I wasn't afraid, but I was nervous. For a few times after that, I wasn't afraid, but I had a chip on my shoulder.

There are, I think, no places where I'd be afraid to wear a kilt, although there may be places where I'd be afraid to go. (That is, regardless of attire.)

Having worn the kilt a fair bit, I find that it's liberated me, to a goodly degree, from nervousness or fear. I can explain my unusual choice of attire to bankers and street toughs, I am polite but not deferential, and I think that my quiet confidence radiates outward and actually influences people around me.

As Mark Twain wrote in a different context, it's like the "calm eyed confidence of a Christian holding four aces."

[Mr. bone]

There's an area around UW that is notorious for armed robbery and the like. I'm a little apprehensive there, because a kilt, ghillies, and an argyle jacket isn't the best hand-to-hand combat wear. But I've never actually had a problem, and it's usually teenager wannabe thugs, so they don't like my "grown man" stature.

How sad. When I worked in Seattle it was a safe place to go. I used to live on Fauntleroy in W. Seattle, and Now I hear that that is no mans land.