"Brigadoonery"? "TCHD"? Who decides?

[Nathan]

I realize that -despite the length of time spent lurking- I'm fairly new here. I'm having some trouble with what constitutes "traditional" casual highland attire. It seems a number of people here take exception to ghillie (pseudo-jacobean) shirts as manufactured history, yet a safari/fishing shirt and pith helmet as civilian casual dress is generally well regarded. Why is the former considered costumery, but the latter not? I am not trying to start a flame war; I own both outfits and see no reason to forego either, yet. I'm genuinely trying to understand why Outfit B is somehow preferable to Outfit A, when both seem to have jumped out of a romanticized (but not particularly accurate) glimpse of history.

I not a fan of either if that helps.

Honestly though, I think the pith helmet is an idiosyncratic choice but it was worn by kilted regiments. The pseudo jacobite shirt is the product of Hollywood imagination. It leads people to incorrectly deduce that the kilt was worn this way in a bygone era. Just my thoughts.