Need advice: run in with Kilt (feather?) Police

[JimB]

I know you didn't mean for it to come off sounding this way, but statements like the one you've just made are what sometimes create the impression of "The Ugly American"-- ignorant and willfully disrespectful of the cultural traditions of other people, even within the boundaries of your own country.

Actually this is quite offensive. Ugly American indeed!

No, I'm not willingly disrespectful. Actually I'm very respectful of custom. I'm just acknowledging that to me modern kilt wear is a personal thing. To me, kilts are worn as clothes, not as a uniform. I don't go out of my way to pose as anything I'm not nor offend anyone. BUT nobody has a right to correct me in how I dress and I would be very rude to correct anyone else. The gentleman in question no doubt broke no rules or conventions, but was questioned by someone who thought he could put some rules on him. He was not trying to impersonate a clan chief. The other fellow was just trying to be a know it all.

An example...one Sunday at church I was wearing a kilt in pretty formal style...jacket, tie, and lace up wingtips (conventionally wearing a classic sporran, kilt pin, flashes, and all the other dodads) Some moron told me "you know that's not the type of shoes they USED to wear". Well SO... I'm not a reenactor...it's what a modern day kilt wearer choses to wear that given Sunday!
The next time somebody tries to act like the kilt police I will ask them for their badge and id.