I'm looking forward to reading the book. I remember reading a post from Jock about how he came across a group of young lads who were very well turned out and how much he appreciated it. I wonder if the observations by the writer come from limited research, only in weddings, where the attendees perhaps are not Scots who have no choice but to rent/hire a kilt?

I find it odd that we (on this continent) are often corrected, yet this would be happening in Scotland so often without the same corrections. That someone, in all of these weddings, wouldn't offer some advice? That the only people knowledgeable about how to dress are the unknowing shop help?

Perhaps Jock and MoR and a few others could enlighten us as to whether the kilt is something that most folks would have? With all the readings here on folks who grew up in kilts and were taught early on how to wear it, the article sort of smacks me as a bit of book marketing. (it works, cuz I want to read it).

But I would still like to hear from our Scots on their own observations vs. this writer and author of the book.