This is a knotty one, for it is not just the tartan v solid: it is also the cut and how it is being worn.

Possibly Hamish could comment on this?

For as stated there is a tradition of solid colours, and there are also variants on the so called traditional in recent years-and I've never had a comment about my wearing of either the hillwalker of the 'gentleman's'.

Here to be blunt I have seen chaps wearing a traditional kilt: but my eyes have told me they are wearing a skirt-a major oops that.

Too as a very young sodier I was helping collect the kits of men of an English regiment who'd been posted to a highland one-and I asked how they found the kilt-they said it was fine once they got used to it. Then I was told how when they first paraded with their new kilted unit-there were horrible screams across the parade ground to the effect of 'get those horrible skirted things off my parade': instructions being given that they had to learn to wear the kilt before appearing ever again.


James