I've already been once this year, and my wife wants to go when her friends are in town, so I couldn't go a third time! The best I could do would be to try to nudge her friends to go on October 17th.

This was the first time I wore a kilt to this particular event, although I've been to it many times in trousers. I was probably the only person there wearing modern clothes (i.e. a T-shirt and modern boots) with a (tartan) kilt.

There were many, many, guys there in modern kilts with a 'renaissance shirt' (indistinguishable from the 'jacobite' shirts that kilt vendors sell), and only a handful actually wearing a great kilt, which would be the only type of kilt that wasn't anachronistic. I do tend to wonder if I might have been taken for one more guy who can't figure out the correct historical attire, when in reality I was simply someone dressed in modern attire that just happened to be wearing a kilt?

There again, I saw one elderly guy wearing a horned viking helmet with a modern check shirt and modern trousers, so maybe I'm over-thinking it?

I am tempted to get a jacobite shirt to wear on a future visit, but it seems that, even though that would fit in with the crowd, it would still be anachronistic. Perhaps also a matching plaid worn to simulate the effect of a great kilt? I think a few people there were doing that, and it doesn't seem too bad an idea?

I also noticed one of the performers wearing a kilt with the knife pleats running the wrong way around. Surprisingly, my son said he also spotted that, although he's never worn a kilt. I imagine this guy had converted a ladies' kilt to close on the men's side, and failed to notice that the pleats ran the wrong way, or couldn't work out how to fix it/figured no-one would notice anyway?