This is a post about contemporary style kilts in the media.

So, I was reading an article in the New York Times about how an independent women's clothing boutique in Austin, Texas, By George, was coping with the current economy.

Before [store owners] the Culmos added high-end women’s fashion, in 2007, they sold men’s wear — profitably. (The season that [Belgian designer] Dries Van Noten did kilts, Mr. Culmo sold out of them.)
I had not heard of these kilts, and to the best of my knowledge, they've never been mentioned in these forums. So, I turned to my trusty resource on men's clothing, men.style.com. It turns out the season was Spring 2005. Here are two examples:


Well, I could leave it here without further comment, which is my inclination, but I'll just go ahead a say it. I think it's nice that designers try to incorporate kilts and kilt-like things into their lines (Is it the borrowing of ideas, an attempt to mainstream, or to shock?) and I'm thrilled that the store was able to turn a profit on them, but where are those kilts from eight seasons ago today? Well, they were so eight seasons ago, and now quite possibly languishing somewhere in the back of their owners' closets. It seems to me that if they didn't try so hard to be avant-garde, if they would just tweak them ever so less and get more of the details right (like which way they should wrap), their work would have more staying power.

I'm curious if anyone here has one of those.

Regards,
Rex.