I would like to submit a proposal to the membership

[Nathan]

I think that it may show the bias I have been referring to if you notice above that anything not historical or traditional is described as "forum fodder" and contemporary and modern are lumped in with "Fashion Forward" and described with "The fashion forward looks may or may not make the grade. "

To those of us who wear the kilt everyday, and try to look good while respecting the kilt, this type of bias could come across very wrong.

This is just these types of comments, and the perception from the traditionalists, that I have been talking about.

New ideas sometimes catch on and become classic and sometimes they don't. If you're a trend setter, that's the risk you take. This is a fact and has nothing to do with bias or attitude.

Forum fodder isn't an insult. It just means that we need to have grey areas so there will be interesting things to discuss on here. If there is no room for variance in opinion and everything is codified, the threads will be mighty boring.

I also don't think there's anything wrong with being fashion forward. It is riskier, but with high risk sometimes comes high reward.

I think fashion forward is a better description than contemporary or modern since, as has been repeated on every page of this thread, traditional clothes are still contemporary and are still modern.

Cutting edge fashion is defined by innovators and risk takers. Sometimes their ideas revolutionize how things are done and sometimes their ideas are simply fads. As I said above, only time and perspective help us figure out one from the other.

On the other hand, I think implying that traditional clothing went out of style in the 1970s or somehow isn't contemporary or modern are just the kinds of comments that show a different bias and come across as very wrong from my perspective.

Nowhere in this or any other thread have I said or implied new approaches to kilt fashion are wrong or shouldn't be worn or anything of the sort. I have only ever said that they are not yet traditional. Facts aren't bias.