Quote Originally Posted by mull View Post
Jock,
We have come around again to the part where my understanding breaks down. The kilt comes from a rural tradition. It co-existed with pants then as it does now. Why is it such an inferior choice for outdoor activities now, unless it always was and the reasons for wearing it have more to do with identity than functionality?

Oh, and I do absolutely accept your position that crawling a mile in a kilt to stalk is way beyond what I would like to attempt kilted.

Joe
The rural tradition is still there it just in the last century machinery is now in a countryside where a century ago it was not. Whirling cogs, umpteen horse power and flapping kilts are not a good mixture. Not only that, genuinely homespun cloth no longer exists and has not done for the best part of 150 years for the majority. If a length of cloth was bought at great expense would you go and muck the cows out, or shear the sheep, or gut the fish in your expensive cloth? Would you wear the kilt to do those jobs? Not likely!If you had a choice? Perhaps 400 years ago the kilt may have been standard attire because there was nothing else, I really don't know. Whatever and however that has not been the case since, well I don't know, but how about the middle of the industrial revolution.

Sorry, its time to take off those romantic rose tinted spectacles, I am afraid.