With time more diverse kilt wearing

[Highland Logan]

No.

I have been wearing a kilt for over 40 years. Casually (not as casually as some), for business, and for formal, but I would never leave the house without a sporran, I have never worn crew socks and sneakers with a kilt and I don't think I have worn a t-shirt with a kilt more than three or four times in my life. However I am very comfortable wearing a kilt and always have been. I don't think you can equate how comfortable/confident someone is with wearing a kilt with how casually he wears it. I don't think a proper kilt is that casual a garment.

I have to support Chef on this one, although I do wear t-shirts on occasion during the summer (company shirt for work, and one with the logo of my own small business).

I have disagree with the kilt snob here. A kilt with all the trappings is something that it had to evolve into. A 'proper' kilt would be everyday wear with no rules regarding this or that. The Scotsman of yesteryear didn't go hunting for supper in full PC regalia. I'm sure if a particular item had no function he wouldn't wear it. Dress up or dress down if it makes live easier (as I'm sure it does) then all the power to you.

I would remind people that what a Highlander would have worn while hunting in the 16th-17th century has no bearing on the rules and etiquette of proper modren Scottish attire, nor should it. Otherwise we end up surrounded by people dressed as "cartoon" Highlanders wearing all the latest fashions found on the newest bog body to be dug up.

Frank