Black tie, Prince Charlie, but the tie is DECIDEDLY not black

[jsrnephdoc]

You will do what you want to do, but can I please, I beg you, to stick to the facts! Scotland is blighted with a myriad of false stories about just about everything about the kilt and its general history of Scotland already. We really don't need any more!

An after-thought. What is this idea of Scottish dress-up? The kilt is no dress-up! We do not live life in a theatre!The kilt is worn as daywear regularly by some and quite often by many, on occasion, that they think warrants it. "Dress-up" does not come into it! The kilt and its attire are regularly worn by many within Scotland for formal evening events and weddings. It is not a rare event in any way. With the greatest of respect, I think you really need to re-calibrate your thinking and---- by more than a bit.

Jock, I'm here to learn. My family roots are in Pitlochry. I've only been in Scotland twice, and found it to be a fascinating place. It's true that much of what I've read or been told about the history of Highland Wear comes from sources in the USA, but I read similar things from the mills and kilt shops in Scotland itself.

Here is the first place I've read that Ghillie Brogues evolved from quickly-draining (tongueless, laced up the calf footwear that servants of landowners wore to carry their masters over marshes and peat bogs). Is that not the case?

I've also been told that the contemporary kilt evolved from the shepherd's "great kilt" only in the 19th century, stimulated actually by newfound English tolerance for Scots wearing kilts (but stimulated more by interest in financial gain from selling them rather than from any penance or regret for precipitating the "cleansing" after Culloden.

I've also been told that if one is walking down a street in Scotland and encounters a man wearing a kilt, there are a few most probable reasons:

1. He's an American, Canadian, or Australian tourist (most likely)
2. He's on his way to or way home from a wedding or graduation
3. He works in a kilt shop

Is that untrue?

Is the origin story of the Sgian Dubh tucked into one's kilt hose (that it told a host being visited that the guest had no evil intent, rather than keeping the little knife tucked into one's armpit.

Is THAT untrue?

If Ghillie Brogues are NOT appropriate for wearing to formal events, where ARE they appropriate, and why do the kilt shops always display and sell them. And, if not Ghillie Brogues, what DOES one wear to a formal event while wearing a kilt.

Again, I'm here to learn, not to preach or presume anything whatsoever.