Not putting it on properly

[OC Richard]

It is a wee bit difficult to conceive how someone (an adult) would actually choose to wear a kilt without having the slightest idea as to how it should look... Surely they must have seen one beforehand otherwise how would they know about it?

Here in the USA it's possible to grow to adulthood without ever seeing a kilt in person.

When I got my first Practice Chanter in 1974 I'd only seen pipes and kilts once: a kid at our school played pipes, and showed up at the school one day and plays some tunes. He gave me my first directions (I can't really call them "lessons") but he was a year older and graduated and went into the military before I got my actual bagpipes.

My first kilt was sewn by my grandmother. Neither of us had anything to go on other than a few photos in an old National Geographic magazine.

It wasn't until I got a catalogue from The Scottish Shopper in Seattle in 1975 that I had photos of sporrans, kilt jackets, etc to look at.

So I can visualize an American ordering a kilt on a whim, never having seen one in person.