Certainly XMTS has influenced my kilt wearing; being here assured that there are many other men out there appreciating wearing of the kilt.
However, the first forum or message board - as I think it was called back in the nineties - important to me was Tom’s Café, run by the late Tom Manuel. True, it wasn’t just about kilts, but in those days it was a great forum, on which among others Hamish, “the legend”, was a frequent contributor. Then came around 2000 WDP’s Bravehearts’ forum. Once a big one, but after the introduction of XMTS in 2004, I like many others, preferred XMTS. As you probably know, there is absolutely no activity any longer on the WDP Forum.