Kilts in a sci-fi short story

[Sylvain]

From a short story by Ursula Le Guin, "The Day Before Revolution".

<<They were very young students, very earnest: doe-eyed, shaggy, charming creatures from the Western Hemisphere. Benbili and the kingdom of Mand, the girls in white trousers, the boys in long kilts, warlike and archaic. They spoke of their hopes.>>

Read the entire text:
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tba...0anth/day.html

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Well, might be a good story, but I am not a fan of long kilts. Too skirtlike for me. Even one of my UK's is too long for my taste, although I wear it often as I like everything else about it.