I wish it were true that others see the wearing of a kilt in the same way they do jeans, etc.; but they don't.
Remember, to many the kilt has symbolism beyond the type of garment it is. That is the type of identity I was talking about. Not the type where part of your identity is wearing designer names.
These statements both amount to the same thing. Which is that someone out there, with little or no knowledge (or too much specific knowledge and no perspective), might draw some negative conclusion about my clothes.

I don't care.