Quote Originally Posted by phil h
there is some drivel in this blog. why does it have to be anti-English? why does it have to be anti-anything? isn't it more pro-Scottish? and how do you explain me, an Englishman wearing a kilt, by these standards?
when was the last time you put on a kilt thinking, I hate the English, I'll put on my kilt to prove it?
Interesting . . .

Matt, by the way, is of English blood (his last name is English), as well as Scottish. He is also American by birth. He was NOT being anti-English, just assertig that Scots and others have attributed kilts as a Celtic identity, and adopted a particularly highlander Scot garb that was not historically Irish, Welsh, Brittony, or anything else. If I READ IT RIGHT, he was pointing out that it is a HIGHLANDER garment, not a pan-celtic. It was not anti-English.

Historically, Kilts are Scottish, but they are becoming more and more common and used for more everyday usage. I do think that it is Americans (US and Canadian both) driving this, which is cross-filtering to Scotland.

Also-> I think that contemptory kilts are possibly more American in roots than Scottish, so may be called something to that in effect in a future time. UNLESS, kilts become more common and we have "modern" kilts and "traditional" kilts or "Scottish Kilts"

PS-> I prefer the term American as ALL North and South Americans. Yet, I'm not sure what else to call us who live in the US besides "us." Canadians have it lucky that they can be "American if they want to be OR Canadian OR "Her Majesty's Loyal Subjects."