Jock wrote
"We used to have many Americans come to shoot and fish here and on the whole they tried very hard to fit in. Sometimes it was very hard to persuade them that kilts were not worn on the hill,or by the river or even as every day wear."

That's me!

I have this belief, (Now seriously challenged) that the kilt is an outdoor garment. A rugged piece of wool that stood between a man and the elements in a wild, beautiful enviorment. I have worn it hiking and working the dogs out in the snow and wind and it performed prefectly. It seems it should be up on the hills, along with the pipes, in open air.

The one place it does not seem to fit to me in indoors, when sitting.

Now I find that I am completely wrong, and that in it's birthplace, the kilt is worn only as party clothes?

This is a great, informative, although disturbing thread.
Joe