here is an example of the worst case "Tartan Police": http://www.durham.net/~neilmac/gallery.htm
This site has been up for a while and it's only recently that the individual covered the victims' faces. And added horrid synth midi music. I think maybe it's a joke but it's too cruel to be funny.

This is my culture, this is where I come from. Who is this pompous snot to make these statements about people? I hope it's nobody on this board. Anybody can take a picture of a crowd of people and play Blackwells (?) worst dressed. Why do that?

I have heard so much crap about the right way and the wrong way. Really, as somebody already said, the only wrong thing is wearing it backwards. After that, we're moralizing based on own personal taste. Some try and attach their statements to a bad sense of history. Scottish kilt tradition is mostly fraud generated from 18th Century English fashion fads. It mostly coincides with the romantic fantasy of my history so I buy into it.

After that, if you're traditional, good for you, pick a period and enjoy it. I like the 1780's to 1941 military style so that's my frame of reference.
If one chooses the period before 1750, most Scots are in dire poverty, barefoot, and ragged. Very few of the recent accessory discussion are valid in this context: clan tartan doesn't really exist; hose doesn't really exist; very few shoes; weapons are illegal.
If one chooses to be part of a contemporary tradition, well, despite the conflict, that has a sound tradition as well. "The parting on the left becomes the parting on the right." Today's eccentricities will become tomorrow's fashions. This is opening up kilts more, as my daughter's friends with their punk kilt styles and I hang out and enjoy each other. ...and walk past the patio of the Scottish pub where nobody is wearing a kilt and they just stare...pity.

If Axl Rose wants to wear a kilt, or a man wants to wear a mini-kilt and tights, I have my own opinion on that, but really it's none of my business until I'm asked about it by them or told to dress that way.

Sometimes we sound like my daughter and her friends, when they were younger, running down somebody because of some razor thin distinction between grunge and skater. The reality is that outside of that culture, there is no real difference. It is the same with us, all people see is the kilt.

It doesn't matter what I wear with the kilt, it gets compliments: I've never had total strangers give me a thumbs up for wearing trousers, never had young women, total strangers, tell me, in front of my wife, that I look good in shorts. It's the kilt, we're the accessory.

sorry for the rant.