In spy novels, they refer to "pocket lint"- the accumulation of stuff that separates normal people from people whose past has been obscured or eliminated or doesn't exist. Receipts and ticket stubs come to mind. One wonders where a kilted spy's pocket lint would go.

I do not have a kilt with pockets, but I wonder if one could wear it in a strictly traditional way. Would THAT be traditional? At the risk of straying from the specifics of this forum, (traditionally made kilts and how to wear them) does the mere presence of pockets make a kilt untraditional? Are pocketed kilts made to wear at the traditional height? Is it possible to slouch in that way your mother always hated with your hands in your pockets of a kilt?

THCD wearers, what would you do if someone GAVE you a kilt and it turned out to have pockets?

I am sure there was a time when trousers didn't have pockets, but they seem to have shed their gills and grown pockets. Does anyone have a theory as to why traditionally made kilts still do not have them? Not even a discreet secret pocket for toting flat objects of personal and secret importance?

As an occasional wearer of trousers, I like to wear a jacket to carry most pocket things, but when I am kilted, I do miss the ability to dig my hand in and pull out some change. This is not a formal poll, but a suggestion of some possible replies. When going from wearing trousers to wearing a traditionally made kilt, do you
a) carry fewer objects
b) put them in a big sporran
c) carry them in shirt and jacket pockets
d)manage them in some other way


Thanks, as always