Tiresome Technicalities.

[Jock Scot]

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To list all the factors that Jock or you or me instantly process when we glance at a gent in Highland Dress would take a lot of ink! But we do it instantaneously and subconsciously.

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Very good, reasonable and understandable thoughts have been voiced by many in this thread and OCR makes a very pertinent point.

However, I have no idea or interest in knowing how my 2 kilts are made. I have no idea what stitches have been used and care little, I have no idea whether they have a selvedge and I am not interested in looking and I have no idea if the waist has internal support and I have no need to find out. Why? They, the kilts, are still going faultlessly after many years, my newest kilt is probably 10 years old and the other is probably 30/40 maybe more years old. That is all I am interested in as far as build quality goes and yes of course the aesthetics are also expected be right.

Likewise I have a lifetime interest in rule 11 stuff, but I am not in the least bit interested in how they work and two of those regularly and heavily used "tools" are happily coming up to their 100th birthday, without a fault. Likewise I have a lifetimes experience of agricultural machinery and I expect them to work efficiently, but I care little in knowing how they were/are built. The same goes for cars and fishing tackle. All I care about is that they hold together until the time to replace them comes, whenever that maybe. In passing, abuse of garments and machines is not encouraged either, although it happens on occasion.