Do folks notice or not?

[the_scott_meister]

Yesterday I was in my garage doing some surgery on my string-trimmer when the mail lady stopped by to deliver a package. I was dressed in a regular garage shirt with some old tennies (for yard work) with a dark blue denim skirt. She just went about her business delivering the package to me and didn't seem to notice the skirt at all, or at least didn't show any reaction to it. Maybe they're taught in mail-lady school not to react because I'd assume that they meet all kinds. But my skirt had a flat front and rather deep pleats all the way around, like a kilt (just with a zipper instead of the standard wrap-around and buckle things). Maybe she thought that it was a kilt. Who knows. I felt very confident in it without the slightest apprehension about her seeing me in it. Maybe that's the key to her acceptance.

Maybe it's the key to everyones acceptance, hmm?

[RichardA]

Some people do notice and say/do nothing, take today for instance coming out of church there was a line of cars and out of six drivers one of them looked and smiled, I was wearing my kilt at the time.
Walking home I passed three people walking towards me two ignored me completely, but one said good morning, I get this a lot when I’m wearing my kilt total strangers some will come up to talk to me and I some times wonder if they would still do this if I was wearing a denim skirt.

[Stu]

Mid-length denim skirts rarely even register with people in my experience. I think their brains see denim, a guy's legs beneath, and that says shorts of some kind and they look no further.

I think you are far more likely to get noticed in a (man's) kilt than a (woman's) plain, knee length denim skirt.

Stu

[Big and Bashful]

My knee length cargo denim skirt got a few comments in Ullapool over the weekend and also the usual question about what was being worn underneath it. Brilliant weekend at the guitar festival.

[Since1982]

Actually, prior to 1980 my Mom loved keeping her fingers supple sewing custom skirts and other skirted garments for me ever since 1970 when I first started wearing the Tongan SuLu wrap skirt I got started wearing when I was out to the kingdom of Tonga diving on shipwrecks left there after the Post WW2 radiation tests on left over war ships. In Tonga, the Sulu, the Tongan national men's "everything" garment became my favorite garment once I was in Tonga for 9 months during the filming of "Deadly Fathoms" the movie I helped make in 1970.

If anyone would like to get a copy of "Deadly Fathoms" from me, I can send you one for $5. + shipping. in the USA. I'd have to find out what the shipping would cost outside the USA. I'm not interested in any profit, just getting back whatever it costs me.

[RichardA]

The postman didn't notice me this morning, I was wearing a short button through denim skirt

[Sarongman]

We were coming out of the Aldi supremarket in town the other day, and stopped to admire a labradoodle on a leash, owned by a Vietnam vet from interstate travelling through in convoy with some other V.Vs. (Called "Grey Nomads" in Australia, when , on retirement, people go on the road in vans & motorhomes) After some time chatting and pointing out where the laundromat is in town, Barbara said we were the odd couple with her in shorts and me skirted. They said, and I think honestly, that they hadn't actually noticed until it was pointed out. Does confidence camouflage "out of the ordinary clothing?

[RichardA]

My sister has just bought a labradoodle lovely dogs

[Charlie]

Walking hand in hand with my wife in Wells market place. A woman coming in the opposite direction passed us, stopped, then: "Excuse me".
We thought she wanted directions, but she asked about my denim kilt (wife was in trousers). As usual I had to explain that I'm not Scottish.
She thought it was great to see a man in a kilt and as we parted she said "Wear it with pride".
A nice exchange.

Charlie

[STEVIE]

A tad outside my normal comfort zone on my usual Sunday outing. I went to the railway station to pick up my travel tickets for the 26th.
At the machine, I found myself surrounded by a group of "young" teenagers, boys and girls.
If they noticed my skirt, they certainly didn't show it.
Steve.

[Pleats]

Walked into a grocery store late Saturday night. In came a small group of teens. Two boys and two girls. One of the girls asked if I had on a skirt or a kilt. I was in a kilt. I said kilt and told her the tartan. Then one of the boys gave me a high five and said "kilt power" as he did. I wonder what they would have said if I was in something like a denim skirt?

[crfriend]

I wonder what they would have said if I was in something like a denim skirt?

One can never know these things ahead of time, hence one needs to make due with the best he's got when the question comes up.

That said, I have never had any sort of "incident" with any of my skirts, which can not be mistaken for kilts. I have found curiosity but never overt hostility despite initial interpretations. From experience, it's mostly about how one comports himself that will win over (or lose) observers.

Kudos, by the way, on the "kilt power" comment; that can only help move matters along!

[Sarongman]

it's mostly about how one comports himself that will win over (or lose) observers.

Thank you carl for that lead in! We were in Toowoomba, our closest regional city, today for hearing tests. (Age & all that) and had no reactions from anyone until we went to a bank where two older ladies gave me some very wary and odd looks, whereon i grinned at them and said "Just an old hippy" at which they both broke into wide smiles and one gave a thumbs up while the other said "Go for it!" Confidence is a great disarmer.

[the_scott_meister]

I didn't know there were any hippies in Australia. We used to have gobbs of them in California when I was growing up there in the 70's (my family was among them), didn't know they'd been exported. I guess that if you're a hippie it's easier to be accepted because you already don't subscribe to societal "norms". I'll have to remember that but since I'm not a hippie I'm not sure that I could pull it off. Don't know if you are either but you were at least convincing enough for them, and I guess that's all that counts.

[allen476]

After my first venture out six weeks ago, I have gone out a total so far of 7 times. Only one adult has noticed. The biggest surprise so far is that children notice more than anything. The one adult that noticed commented that the skirt I had on looked like it was made for a man. ( It is a shorts to skirt conversion of a pair of Polo by RL shorts that were too big in the legs for me.)

I think that it isn't noticed as much if it looks like it could be a male garment. Most of my skirts look like they could be shorts as they are all about knee length except a couple of handmade ones that are ankle length that I use during the winter around the house.