what kilt hose to wear?

[gilmore]

...In short, we'll never all agree on every point, and besides, the "rules" are fairly recent inventions which no one has to follow. Remember, this is a Scottish thing, and Scots are not usually folks who abide by someone else's ideas of what they should do, much less wear.

It never ceases to amaze me how so many non-Scots seem to get their ideas of Scots' mores and values from "Braveheart" or "Rob Roy." It would be like some one seeing "Gone with the Wind" or "Birth of a Nation," deciding that that is how US Southerners today behave and think, fetishizing it, and wearing 19th Century clothes and behaving in ways that they fantasize we do.

Reality is a far different thing.