Ok....maybe I should keep my mouth shut, but what I'm seeing between this thread and the Tripp Thread is starting to bug me.
I want to say that I think that everyone should be able to wear whatever they want given the right venue. There is a time and place for everything. Just like jeans and suits you pick the right time and place to wear either.

I am pretty much a traditionalists in my kilting. That's my style choice. While I like the 16 oz official tartans built tank style, those are not how I got started in kilting, and that's not how I got started in making them.
I bought a cheap Black Watch from a festival vendor and although I would never buy another, it was a good place to start because I sure wasn't going to spend $400 bucks on my first kilt and it DID get me started.
I started making kilts because I wanted to learn and saw making them as a way to get a kilt wardrobe affordably.

Yes I used cheap material to learn. I came away from that learning experience with a couple of kilts that have been looked down upon as "MacTablecloth" and worse by the Tartan police but by God, I made them, every stitch, and I'm proud of them and wear them.
I've made canvas kilts and tartan kilts, and MacTablecloth kilts. Learning how to make kilts is not easy. Buying a 16oz tartan kilt is easy ( but not cheap).

I will probably only make real tartan kilts from now on, because I now (thanks to all the mistakes on the cheap stuff) can make a kilt, out of any fabric with confidence.

I haven't seen this Tripp kilt because my browser is blocking me from seeing photobucket images, but I don't care if it's hideous, it's their choice and they have to wear it, no one else. I don't want anyone looking down their nose at my kilts and I will give the owner's of other kilts the same respect.
Kilts...many styles, many fabrics, many choices. Just that, and only that....choices.