Is it possible to wear a kilt and not look like you're from Scotland?

[Jock Scot]

I think the key factor here is wearing the kilt with all the other accoutrements of traditional Scottish wear.

I don't normally wear the kilt that way. I wear it like an American of Scottish descent. No one in Scotland, I trust, would look at me in a kilt with tshirt and ball cap and say I was trying to look Scottish. And I'm not. I wear my Clan tartan kilt as a symbol of my family and clan and I am definitely NOT trying to look Scottish (no offense intended). Oh, and I wear it because all of my Scottish Mother's sons do.

I did put on a Balmoral in this photo as I was serving in my capacity as Clan Marshall at the New Hampshire Highland Games.

With the greatest of respect that is exactly the problem! Many Scots DO think that you are trying to dress as a Scot, particularly at a Highland Games. You may think that you look very smart and you are in your way, you may think that you are being a Canadian/ American/Wherever doing your own thing but the tartan kilt, hose, flashes, bonnet, stick scuppers that idea in Scots eyes -------. Not only that, i go back to my point that the unknowing man in the street the world over thinks "tartan kilt = Scotland".

I don't think this divergence of viewpoint and consequential opinion will ever be reconciled.