Two Telling comments? The Answer Perhaps?

[OC Richard]

My analogy with Western Wear was not about somebody who had relocated here to the USA, but a tourist dressing up like a cowboy. Yes when people relocate they tend to start dressing like the natives. I know a guy who moved here from Belfast and he walks around in cargo shorts and flip-flops like the locals do. Only when he talks do you know he's not from here.

I work at Disneyland and see tens of thousands of people every day, and the people in Western Wear aren't very common, and they're always from Texas or thereabouts, or ranchers, or horse people. Were a Japanese tourist to dress up like that and walk around Disneyland it would look odd. Besides, there's a clear visual difference between the everyday working Western Wear of the American rancher and "dressing up like a cowboy" outfits. I can't ever remember seeing a tourist dressed in Western Wear in my 26 years there.

I can imagine a native Scottish Highlander seeing a foreign tourist all dressed up in costume-y Highland Dress and thinking "oh here's another tourist!"

BTW I'm going to break from "I only wear kilts when I'm paid to" thing for the next few days, attending the USA Sevens in Las Vegas, supporting Scotland in kilts with pipes in hand.