Thanks everyone for your input. I have no doubt that conventions for highland dress are extremely important and have no wish to contradict these. What I have seen, however, is an historical element of this site and a much more independent outlook towards kilt wearing. It seems that there were two distinct groups, those who wore casual kilts and those who wore a traditional form of attire. Nowadays the forum seems much more focussed on traditional highland dress and so does this mean that the casual dress wearers are no longer active here?