Quote Originally Posted by Panache
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Seriously though what we think of as traditional kilt (the infamous 8 yard tartan) is a fairly recent incarnation of the kilt. Check out Matt Newsome's site www.albanach.org for a lot of interesting facts about the development of the kilt. I think it's pretty wonderful that the kilt isn't being regulated to being just a period costume piece. It exists and continues to evolve. Creating new subsets of it's own.
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Cheers
You are SO absolutely spot on. My sentiments exactly.

By the way, if I am questioned (and it very seldom happens thesedays) about my unusual kilts (that would be my Utilikilts), I always refer to them as my "American kilts". This is usually received with surprise since 'Joe Public' in the United Kingdom just cannot understand how kilts, even American ones, can possibly come to be made in the USA! This, in turn, leads to an opportunity for me to explain the phenomenon that has been the amazing explosion of kilt-wearing and kilt manufacturing, both traditional and contemporary, by our brethren across the pond in the past six years.

When anyone questions ANY of my kilts, they leave me wiser and more understanding than when they posed the question!!