I always laugh when people in the US tell me there are no kilts in Scotland. The first 3 people (and probably most influencial outside of this board on my kilt wearing) that I ever saw wearing kilts as day to day clothing were in Glasgow, Oban, and Inverness. This was in 1999 and I still remember their non issue and lack of a need for justification with their clothing choices. I have seen kilts in formal wear my entire life, and I still see at least one kilt every few weeks (I am away from Vancouver centre), but those were the first casual kilt wearers I met.

We are not as ground breaking as we think we are in the colonies.