The only comments I get are from shop keepers I am on friendly terms with - the baker, butcher, sweet shop owner and cheese-monger will often say I'm looking particularly cute today if I'm nicely dressed. My daddy also likes to dress in 'relaxed' clothing and we have a ready supply of banter so the baker and cheese-monger call us 'the kids' when we enter their shops. It's all very friendly, but then I am very friendly. I am a good customer to these people and so they like to see me happy and relaxed. I've never noticed anyone staring at me in a way that might be real, but then I have paranoid schizophrenia so sometimes it is difficult to tell how random strangers are reacting to me I've never had a bad reaction from dressing little or cuddling my teddy in any situation at all.... lots of people like Toast the teddy