While it is true, wearing a kilt is a form of appreciation of our European heritage, it has evolved into much more than that. Wearing a kilt today is a style of dress. It is a versatile garment. No other single piece of clothing can go from casual dress to business attire to formal attire. When worn with the appropriate accessories and the correct demeanor, a man in a kilt can go just about anywhere (with only a light travel bag.)
I totally agree with this, and find it to be a grand statement.

Unfortunately, its seems that the poeple of NZ have forgotten where they have come from, now in saying that, I'm a Kiwi first and foremost, but I am also very proud of my heritage.
In the approx 150 years that NZ has been a country, we have distanced our selves from our own heritage / ancestary, like it was supposed to be shunned.
where wearing a kilt is looked upon as if the wearer is some form of eccentric or wierdo (but it is okay for others to wear flaxskirts and lavalava's etc)...for example:

In the several instances that i have worn my kilt to formal situtations (balls, weddings etc), i have been on the recieving end of some, well to put it politely, uneducated comments, such as,
"Why are you wearing that?"
"Give us a highland fling"
"why are you wearing that if you were not born in Scotland"
etc etc etc.

And even a gem of a line, from a cashier at a casino when i went to get my parking validated after the ball, - "check this guy out, what a fruit"( i believe he thought i was out of ear shot).

Fortunately for me, I am a very stoic and self assured man (however I keep my patience in a little jar in a little pocket of the smallest fruit fly in history, if ya catch my drift), and care little for what the plebians string together as crude sentences from their gapping pie holes, and would wear only a fig leaf, if I thought i could get a rise out of someone...

Wait, what was my point? ah yeah...

Oh yeah here it is:

That although the attire may be correct, unfortunately people's opinion of masculinity, and what they deem appropriate, is jaded by some form of blanket guilt of colonisation...(or something to that effect).

Fortunately the bro's of the lodge are not like that...

Phil