Please explain...

[JakobT]

Well the way we know it didn't descend from the woollen plaid is the inventor specifically said it didn't. It descended from cargo shorts. You can check their website. For practical reasons it has some features that are similar to a kilt but that is it. Pick-up trucks and coupes have many similar features but no confuses them.

I believe what the inventor actually said is that he made up the first Utilikilt from a pair of cargo shorts. This, however, is neither here nor there. After the WWII a lot of wedding dresses were made from silk reclaimed from parachutes. Does this mean they weren't wedding dresses? Of course not.

[macwilkin]

I believe what the inventor actually said is that he made up the first Utilikilt from a pair of cargo shorts. This, however, is neither here nor there. After the WWII a lot of wedding dresses were made from silk reclaimed from parachutes. Does this mean they weren't wedding dresses? Of course not.

But I think Chef's point here is that the inventor of the Utilikilts never based his product on a kilt in a first place; they were based on cargo shorts, so therefore, trying to claim a lineage from a traditional Scottish kilt is faulty logic.

And your analogy of the wedding dress/parachute doesn't really apply, because we're not talking material -- the simple fact of the matter is that a Utilikilt was never based on a traditional Scottish kilt.

T.