However I would like to echo something that Steve has written twice now.

As a general rule, the guys with a more "contemporary" bent to their kilt wearing don't go into the Traditional Kilt forum and tell the fellows there that they look a mess. In past years at X Marks, before we had so many individual sub-forums, there were times when more "contemporary" guys told the "traditionalists" that they were stodgy and boring and they for damn sure weren't going to wear THEIR kilts by THOSE GUYS rules. It's true. There was a time when that happened.

But those days have pretty much passed.

Taking myself as an example, I don't even READ the Traditional Kilt subforum (well, I do, but I scan it only every month or so), because I know that what goes on there doesn't interest me a whole lot. I would never be so presumptuous as to trot in there and tell people that I didn't like their kilts, that they looked awful etc. etc. etc.

Is it SO MUCH TO ASK to request that guys who don't like contemporary kilt styles, or the wearing of traditionally-inspired kilts in modern ways, to just NOT comment in here? You know, if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say anything? Nobody is demanding that you change your mind and like what you see in here. All that is being asked is that you either avoid the place because it annoys you, or limit your comments to something positive that you can contribute.