Quote Originally Posted by Old Hippie View Post

Could be. One interesting thing I've noticed is that people get really thrown for a mental loop if you're not wearing a tartan. I wear contemporary kilts because that's what I have right now.

At the local Highland Games a couple of weeks ago I had some interesting conversations with members of the Caledonian Society. Some of the comments were, "I'll bet you could wear that every day!" "Wow, I've never seen a kilt with pockets!" "That's a really practical look" "Where did you get THAT?" and "Is that a military kilt?"

I had assumed that people who make kilt-wearing part of their identity would have seen contemporary kilts, even own one or two. It does say something about how they may see the role of the kilt in their own lives.

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Yes, It does say something about how they may see the role of the kilt in their lives. Unfortunatly, from the viewpoint of a daily kilt wearer anyway, they see it as a sort of costume, primarily suited to wear at Scot heritage functions like games, Burns suppers, etc..(safety in numbers?)

This is not a critical assessment of anyone by me! They are involved with their heritage, and wear the kilt as a display of that identity, but don't care to wear it all the time. So as you saw, they are unaware of most of the details about kilts and Highlandware we concern ourselves with here on our forum. I believe this is true of vast majority of kilt 'owners' around the globe.