Forbidden to wear a kilt for Nostalgia Day

[The Supreme Canuck]

I'm going to have to disagree, there.

Hm. Perhaps a bit of a misunderstanding. I was responding to cajunscot's argument that using non-Scottish tartans as examples may do no good. He makes the point that these tartans are still Scottish in a way. I wanted to make the point that kilts, no matter who makes or wears them, also have that Scottish link. So to say that non-Scots can and do wear kilts as a way to convince the school board that a kilt is proper attire is the same as saying that non-Scots can and do wear non-Scottish tartans. In both cases there is a clear cultural link to Scotland (in that both the kilt and the tartan are Scottish by nature), but also in both cases there is a clear link to a specific non-Scottish culture. Showing a Canadian or an American wearing a kilt has the same effect as showing a Canadian or an American tartan. The kilt or tartan in question will be as unquestionably Canadian or American as it Scottish.

Anyway, I could have worded it better, and this post probably isn't much of an improvement. I'm running on too little sleep.

Please don't take offense at what I was saying, sir. I always offering was the opinion that one cannot totally detach the traditional kilt, or tartan, for that matter, from Scotland.

No offence taken at all. I agree entirely that one can never detach the kilt or the tartan from Scotland. I'm just saying that to argue a tartan is both Scottish and non-Scottish is the same as arguing that a kilt is both Scottish and non-Scottish. Scottish in that that's where both came from, and non-Scottish in that they have taken root in certain, wholly integrated, communities of another culture altogether.

Thus, one can maintain the cultural link to Scotland while arguing that both are also linked to these other cultures.