traditional vs. classic

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Yes, by all means! Perhaps highland attire should be sold only to those whose income surpasses a certain threshold. I'm sure that we could arrive at a figure if we put our minds to it. After all, we can't have the proletariat running around in kilts!

Comrade Kiltedsawyer: stop waiving your red flag, and turn off the recording of the Red Army Chorus singing "The International" for just a moment, or at least long enough to go back and re-read my post (that your have quoted out of context-- I knew there was a reason why I should have kept you on my "ignore list") as well as all of the other posts in this thread.

If you do, you will find nothing in there about rationing kilts to your beloved "proletariat". It's all about people in a free-market economy choosing to buy cheap crap rather than quality goods, and how that has reduced consumer choice in the high street.

Whether you like it or not, or agree with it or not, this "buy cheap" mind-set has a negative effect on the marketplace. Cheap PCs made in China (at a cost of US$8.00 each and sold in shops for under US$110.00) crowd out better made and more expensive PCs-- along with other styles of jackets-- with the result that there is less choice for the consumer. There may be more of a single item (of highly suspect quality) but there will be far less choice. Limiting choice based on a lack of availability of goods may have appealed to Marx and Mao-- and that's probably one of the reasons that the "proletariat" dumped their philosophies into the trash can of history-- but it is a bad thing for consumers.

Now, since this is supposed to be a forum about Traditional Highland Dress, rather than a discussion about free market economics, let me return this to something more on topic with this bit of advice for all you fellow travelers out there:

It is considered bad form to wear a Che Guevara tee-shirt with a kilt.