It might also be necessary to laugh at ourselves!

For all too often the modes of kilted attire to be seen today are not based upon the highlander: but upon the costumes of pipe bands and dancers, oft little girls.

I use the word costume, for the wear of such people is designed for show, and not of necessity for actual day to day, or formal wear.

So we have a situation today where the actual highland garb was largely parodied to enhance the band/dancers etc: and so distanced itself from what was and is the actual wear of a highlander. The joke being that the parody itself is now being imported as the role model for kilt wearing.

Going back a few years, I have no recollection of seeing such things as fly plaids, white socks, ghillie brogues being worn as a the garb of a highlander/kilt wearer, be it at gatherings or formal functions.

James