Kilt attire add-ons. Are they necessary?

[Jock Scot]

i wonder if a lack of confidence with kilt attire choices that causes these kilt attire add-ons often to excess, that haunt this website from time to time? I respectfully suggest that it is.

In part,I suggest this website is unwittingly adding to this. How often do we see some kilted gentleman, full of enthusiasm with their newly acquired kilt attire and wanting attire advice. Many members here are also in the same position so they are also enthusiastically lapping up the advice too. But..............

BUT they, along with the person asking the question about their newly acquired and not in-expensive outfits are all ears to see how to wear their kilt attire are less than impressed with the advice given. Sadly, experienced kilt wearers, sometimes, actually all too often, have to deliver advice that runs contrary to what the newcomer's dreams and expectations might be. Not only that, those that have been wearing their not quite so new kilt attire quite happily for a while, spring to the new newcomer's defence . And then................... the conversation goes downhill from then on.

This website is to be commended with encouraging newcomers to ask questions about kilt attire, added to that the website is also to be commended for encouraging experienced kilt wearers to offer advice on kilt matters too. The result?

Sadly the result, errr umm, often ends in tears. The Original Poster(OP) is disappointed and often more than a little hurt, as are those who have recently acquired their attire too. Not good news is not easy to deliver, however hard one tries. The question was asked and the question was answered. The overall result that many new and not so new to kilt attire are so sensitive and so defensive that they are ,I feel, less confident to ask for advice and in consequence don't ask for advice and then venture out in public wearing incorrect kilt attire, or worse, they seem to think they are wearing their attire correctly and are verbally aggressive in defending their attire choices.

To wear kilt attire from the start requires confidence and that confidence needs to extend to making different attire choices as our experience grows. The result? We don't need to wear the "kitchen sink"(KS) as our confidence grows.