Quote Originally Posted by Cowher View Post
Traditional:characteristic manner, method, or style

Characteristic: A feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait.

Manner:method of artistic execution or mode of presentation

Method:a way, technique, or process of or for doing something

Style: the state of being popular

Therefor traditional is Afeature that helps to identify amethod of artistic execution or mode of presentation.
Or
A way of dressing in a popular way.

Not twisting words. Not misunderstanding. Using the definition of the words used in the definition of the word being discussed.
Is there any thing in that that would put a end date to traditional kilt wear. NO

In 100 years will alt/utili/whatever kilt be considered traditional? If they are still around and are still being worn in the same way then YES!! It may not be a Scottish tradition rather a north American one but either way a traditional form of unbifurcated mens wear.

The issue I have is that a date of death has been engraved on the tombstone of something that is clearly ALIVE!!!

This is a little bit misleading, don't you think?

I don't have access to the full OED anymore but from 2008 Concise Oxford English Dictionary--this is the entire entry not just the 4th or 5th usage. And it is identical (or near-as-nevermind) to what I remember of the OED definition. [note the first entry, which is generally considered the primary and most widely accepted, definition]

Tradition:

  • 1 the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way.
    • ■ a long-established custom or belief passed on from one generation to another.


  • 2 an artistic or literary method or style established by an artist, writer, or movement, and subsequently followed by others.


  • 3 (in Christianity) doctrine not explicit in the Bible but held to derive from the oral teaching of Christ and the Apostles.
    • ■ (in Judaism) an ordinance of the oral law not in the Torah but held to have been given by God to Moses.
      ■ (in Islam) a saying or act ascribed to the Prophet but not recorded in the Koran.