Non-Scottish Kilts? HUH?!?

[Colin]

Here in the USA, maybe even more so in Canada, Kilts are slowly evolving from Scottish to Scottish-American (or Scottish-Canadian) and will eventually, evolve into simply American and Canadian kilts.

Chris, while I obviously can't speak for all of my country, but I think that Canadians generally just except that the kilt is Scottish. I don't think we have a need to make it our own.

Canada has a long history of Scottish settlers, regiments, and culture (the ceilidh, curling, etc, etc, etc,etc,). I may be mistaken about the current status of the BlackWatch (Todd will sort me out I am sure), but with the amalgumation of the Scottish regiments, Scotland no longer has the Black Watch, yet Canada does. We aren't trying to take it away from the Scots, we instead thank them for their influence and contribution in the shaping (along with many others of course) of our country and it's make up.

Imagine this. Yesterday after finishing a work out, I watched two young guys (20ish) get ready to leave the gym. Both put on very sporran like purses for guys that slung over their shoulder. Now it was only sporran-like in that it was very slim and opened at the top. I have seen several of these around in the past year or two (yet some people still think kilts aren't excepted ). Now what if these were marketed as a "sporran" in name alone to attract a mass market. We know they aren't sporrans, yet Joe Walmart doesn't. So is this the new American sporran?

But ... Kilts are bigger than Scotland and they are getting bigger all the time

That's thanks to those good Vegas buffets, buddy

To keep on topic though, the article by Matt that has already been mentioned is fantastic and well worth the read. I am always suprised when I hear that the kilt is as associated with the Irish as with the Scots in the US.