What's Modern Kilt Wear> ...or...what's this subforum really about?

**Steve Ashton** · 14th June 11, 01:22 PM

I remember the early days of the forum when we would joke about the "Kilt Cops". There were comments like: (delivered in very poor, and politically incorrect, Mexican accents) "Kilt Cops? We don't need no stinking Kilt Cops."

In those days it was recognized that there is no single, proper, or correct way to wear the kilt.

The Modern Kilt Wear forum section's description is correct. "As the kilt is worn today."
That is everything including full Prince Charlie with all the bells and whistles and also a totally punked out or goth kilt with enough spikes to terrify an airport security agent.

I hope that this discussion will once again let our members know that the strength of this forum is that we graciously accept all the ways to wear the kilt. The only thing that matters here is that you wear it.

In the Traditional Kilt Wear section of the forum there is a widely debated but accepted way that the kilt was worn, then. There is no written rule or law about how how the kilt was worn but there is an understanding of what is meant when someone says they wear their kilt in the Traditional manner.

This section is for how it is worn today. Wear it in what ever manner you are comfortable with and with pride.

The thing we seem to have missed somewhere along the line is that when someone says something like "that's not traditional" it can be perceived by others as being dismissive and implying that one way is correct and everything else is wrong. What was intended by one as helpful and instructive can be perceived by another as snobbish. It may not have been the intent of the comment but it is how it can be received and interpreted.

I hope that this discussion can remind us that the internet can, at times, be a very poor method of communication.

Kilt Cops? We don't need no stinking Kilt Cops!