I figure if you're not wearing a tartan that has some huge historical connection, wear what you bloody well want. The flip side of that logic says that if someone chooses to wear pants, they're not "wimps" or "kowtow to popular culture" necessarily. They just happen to choose to wear pants....just like you or I choose to wear a kilt. Sometimes I wear pants. Sometimes I'll be wearing a kilt (soon).

Kilts are not BETTER than pants. Pants are not BETTER than kilts. They're just clothes.

....or a dashiki, or the sumatran MUG (blanking on the name) or a pareu a la south pacific islands or whatever someone chooses to wear. As long as it doesn't break the law for indecent exposure, it shouldn't matter a hoot what someone wears. Wearing something outside "the norm" doesn't make the person wearing the different piece of clothing "better" or "stronger" or "more manly" or anything. It just means they choose to wear a different piece of clothing.

So it should be. Except that in the real world, we know darned well that it doesn't work that way.