21st Century Ankle-Length Kilts

[caig]

Hamish, you are absolutely right, as usual. Very well put.

Even if these long kilts are not for you, they should be tolerated if worn by others.

One of my friends ( Hamish, it was Ian St.....ng) borrowed Howie's long grey kilt ( his prototype) to a ceilidh in Edinburgh and he loved it. He received many admiring glances - and he was over 60 years of age.

[O'Callaghan]

FWIW, a kilted leine would not be tartan, as linen is hard to dye, so those old kilt pictures probably are kilts (or great kilts) if they are tartan. Even in line drawings you should be able to tell that a leine is made of a plain fabric.