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Historical Kilt Wear
Traditional Kilt Wear
Modern Kilt Wear

This section was originally intended as a photo showcase of, and inspiration for, how to wear the kilt in relation to time periods.

The information in each section would be appropriate to the time period.

It was originally thought that the Modern Kilt Wear section would have the most posts as the wearing of the kilt today is still undergoing much change and adaptation.

The way the kilt was worn in the other time periods are already set simply because those time periods are in the past.
Interesting. I take "modern" and "traditional" to both refer to kiltwearing today, but to different forms of current kiltwearing, for this reason:

"Traditional", at least as the term usually means, does NOT refer to a time period in the past. (Of course people are always free to create their own personal meanings for words, but this hinders mutal understanding.)

"Traditional" means modern current still-living things which have an unbroken continuity into the past. (Websters: "tradition the handing down orally of beliefs, customs, etc from generation to generation" )

If the continuity is broken, and we today reach back into the past and revive or recreate something, it is not "traditional" but a revival or recreation of a historical thing.

cf the difference between "traditional music" and "historical music". Traditional music, of whatever tradition, is a living breathing thing which undergoes continuous evolution today.

There are always two opposing forces at work in any tradition: innovation and conservation.

So, modern kiltwear which is today undergoing these forces of innovation and conservation is indeed "traditional" as modern kiltwear has an unbroken lineage back to kiltwearing of the earliest times.

If you put date brackets around something, say, 1900-1930, or indeed 1990-2000, you are by definition not talking about a "traditional" thing but a "historical" thing.

It would be more accurate and clear to have categories "traditional kiltwearing" and "nontraditional kiltwearing". Both are "modern".