Just a quick thought on the topic of what is and is not a kilt...

A friend of mine had a hysterectomy. Another friend of mine had ovarian cancer and had to have her ovaries removed. Are these two individuals no longer women because they lack a characteristic of what it means to be a woman? I have waist length hair. Because our society thinks men should have short hair, does the fact I don't have short hair make me not male?

My point in posting that is to provide an example of defining what something is or isn't in a more relevant manner which more of us might understand.

I have five kilts. One is in my family's tartan, 3 are in military tartans, and one is a solid. In the pants world I own tight leather pants, I own pants that appear to be snake skin, courderoy, jeans, pin stripes, and any number of plain black dress pants. All of these items are pants. The only difference between them is which pair I would or would not wear in different settings.

I wear kilts for a number of reasons. Firstly, my grandfather was a Kerr. Wearing the kilt for me is a sign of respect and way of showing my relatives that family is important for me. I wear a kilt because its far more comfortable than pants. I wear the kilt because we as men need more choices than pants or pants in what we wish to wear. And lastly, simply because I want to.