MAC you have made your argment, you may be right, I could be quite wrong.

However let me say this, if you asked me to describe a 21rst century American, I would say T-shirt with some tobacco company logo and bule jeans. A quick look in my closet would find 13 pairs of pants only 2 pair are blue jeans, and that is not counting 3 kilts or at least a dozen shorts. So that would be 2 of 28 or 1 of 14 or 7%.

Another anology might be that 99+% of US Civil War re-enactors wear pegged sole shoes, while US Army records indicate that a miniscule 1.5% of footwear was pegged. Once an idea is out there the fact that it has not been documented will never be a good reason to change the opinion of the faithful.

So there is a small chance that I could be right.