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[Ivor]

I appreciate what you are saying, Jock, and the endless in-depth examinations of anything remotely kilt-related can only be accounted for by an ongoing obsession with, in this case, what is nothing more or less but an item of clothing. For some people this might be a pastime like fishing where the obsession goes beyond a trip to the riverbank and, instead, involves an extensive (and expensive) collection of rods, reels and sundry other paraphernalia even to the exclusion of actually trying to catch fish!
Without trying to diminish anyone’s particular obsessions it is also not necessary to join in with them but to step back and smile indulgently as they follow their interests. The only exception, perhaps, and that is maybe what you are suggesting, is when these extend beyond the harmless and begin to influence others in unintended ways.

[Jock Scot]

As a keen angler I understand what you are saying and I have followed the route of greenheart rods and silk lines all the way to split cane and on to carbon fibre and synthetic floating fly lines that actually float!. But......but.......kilt attire is different.Yes changes with kilt attire have changed over the many years but those changes have been fairly slow. Wool kilts are still going strong with little or no change, shoes haven't changed much, hose the same and so on.

What has changed hugely is the international interest with kilts and its attire. It is this international aspect that perhaps, un-intentionally but I think, inevitably is often what causes ripples in the traditional kilt attire world. It is bound happen, I regret to say.

Whist I reluctantly have to accept that, I honestly think that modern materials combined with a major international interest in kilt attire WITHOUT the close connections to traditions of assorted types of the home country can only hasten the relegation of traditional kilt attire to a clothing fad. I am afraid that I see signs of it happening at an ever quickening pace almost every day on this website.