Is it possible to wear a kilt and not look like you're from Scotland?

[OC Richard]

The Kilt is not the Heritage of the Scots but the Gaels

For sure this is true, but Scotland decided to put the entire infantry of the nation into kilts, with the formation of The Royal Regiment of Scotland.

They are Scots and don't need to prove it by wearing the kilt, any more than an American has to wear "cowboy" or "native American" forms of dress to prove they are American.

Just as Highland Dress is the traditional dress of only one region of Scotland but has become the symbol of Scottishness to outsiders, Western Wear (as we call it) is the dress of the Southwestern rancher or cowboy, yet symbolises the Yank to the outside world. (Yank too refers to only a tiny fraction of Americans, people who wouldn't be caught dead in Western Wear, BTW.)

Native Americans wear t-shirts and jeans like everybody else.

[The Q]

For sure this is true, but Scotland decided to put the entire infantry of the nation into kilts, with the formation of The Royal Regiment of Scotland.



Just as Highland Dress is the traditional dress of only one region of Scotland but has become the symbol of Scottishness to outsiders, Western Wear (as we call it) is the dress of the Southwestern rancher or cowboy, yet symbolises the Yank to the outside world. (Yank too refers to only a tiny fraction of Americans, people who wouldn't be caught dead in Western Wear, BTW.)

Native Americans wear t-shirts and jeans like everybody else.

Not quite, As part of yet more cuts to the British Army, the BRITISH government decided to put to put the entire Royal Regiment of Scotland, a division of the British Army into Kilts for Parade Dress, most of the rest of the time, they are in trousers or combat trousers.
The "English and Welsh", the Irish and Scots Guards Regiments, and the not nationally ascribed Regiments of the British Army" are in trousers. ( I'm not sure what all of the Royal Irish Regiment wear, though most, I believe, are In trousers all the time)

And there of course there are some Native Americans who do wear their traditional dress.... For their special occasions, as explained to me by some that came to the UK on a tour, pity I wasn't wearing a kilt at the time...

To the military people yes I know I've probably used the term "Division" incorrectly in the military sense.