"Brigadoonery"? "TCHD"? Who decides?

[Nathan]

Fair enough. I've never said someone shouldn't wear the shirt, just that it's not traditional. One question though, would you wear this shirt with your trousers or shorts?

Yes, I do wear these shirts with work trousers and jeans. I haven't worn shorts in 30+ years and back then they were Gurkha Khaki's - without the Pith Helmet, I hasten to add - but I do like the look on @Panache! I prefer them with the kilt though.

The shirt you described has no collar and is more historic than the pseudo Jacobite Ghillie shirts in question.

I'm now inordinately concerned that I am wearing my only kilt wrong. It's a USAkilts traditional 8-yarder. I've been wearing it such that the waistband overlaps my lowest ribs (about 2 inches above my belly button), and the apron ends just above the tops of my kneecaps. If I wear it lower it feels wrongly sized, but perhaps I measured wrong in the first place.

On a personal note, I was not aware till @Nathan pointed it out that you were the gentlelaird wearing the safari shirt and pith helmet in the TCHD guide. I did not mean any slight by calling it an affectation. Please forgive me if it seemed so, you wear them very well. I'm sometimes less handy with our language than one ought to be.

It sounds to me like you're wearing your kilt correctly. Some military kilts (not mine) come right up to under the man's nipples. I think this is a case of lots of different sized soldiers, lots of similar length kilts.