Blu, I suspect that you are right and that my views will soften over time.

phil h, you are right. I know very little about fabric and I am the first to admit that I wouldn't know the difference between poly/vicose and wool if I wasn't told. But I would know what I was wearing and just wouldn't feel honest telling people that I was wearing a traditional Scottish garment if it wasn't wool.

Andrew, (Editing out an explanation that the Scots were wearing the bottom half of the great kilt on it's own before Rawlinson, due to Robbie's post, which came up while I was writing) However, I do want a great kilt or three, and will probably buy them come winter.

Hamish, I agree that the kilt shouldn't be a period costume. Once I have enough kilts I will be making the switch and wearing kilts full time. At least until winter when it may be too cold.

I will wear my kilt with t-shirts or sweaters or sweatshirts also. I won't stick to clothes that are marketed for being worn with a kilt.

It's just that for me to feel confident in a kilt, it will need to be something that nobody can argue is not a kilt. Maybe after I have worn them a while I will try other ones, but right now I need to be able to say without any shadow of a doubt in my mind that what I am wearing is a traditional Scottish garment. For ME, that means that it has to be made of wool.

I agree that the kilt is evolving, but I am a little old fasioned in that sense. I have seen in the Off Topic area that some of you are behind the times in computer or cell phone technology, and don't feel comfortable with the newer technology. I'm behind the times in kilt technology, and don't feel comfortable with the newer technology. Maybe I'll learn to use it, but at this point I will be happy with the older things.