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

[Alan H]

Jock, I'm honestly surprised at your stand that were you for some reason to emigrate to Canada, you'd cease wearing the kilt. I'm also surprised that you don't wear it at all when not in the Highlands. I didn't know that. Now, "surprised" is a good thing in this case, because I learned something from it.

So........

Good on ye for being consistent in what you say and do.

Honestly, everybody needs to try to UNDERSTAND other folks opinions here.... that doesn't mean you have to AGREE with them, and it certainly doesn't mean that just because you disagree with someone you have to change things that you do. It's just that on this forum about kilts, it's good to UNDERSTAND each other. Sometimes, as Jock has pointed out, that's the best we can do, and we just shake hands and carry on, happily disagreeing with each other.

It has to go both ways.... Lads from Scotland who look at all this fuss and bother and shake their heads need to understand that people outside of Scotland may feel that they have a wide variety of reasons for wearing a kilt, not all of them are grounded in "pretending to be a Scot". YOU may think they're "pretending to be a Scot" and certainly some of them are, but many believe they are not doing so.

On the other hand, folks in the US, Canada, Britain, Germany, New Zealand and Australia need to understand that some people...not ALL people, but some people in Scotland think that a lot of this obsession and dressing up in kilts is kind of odd, and in some ways inappropriate.

I'm not going to tell these lads that they have to... HAVE TO change their opinion so that my comfort level goes up.