Quote Originally Posted by JakobT View Post
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.