untraditional traditions

[CMcG]

I'm having flash backs to the long boring discussions of what a "tradition" is: Post Traditional Stress Disorder.

Yes Bugbear, let's not get into a long, boring discussion about what a "tradition" is. I'm hoping for more of a discussion about conventions outside of THCD.

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I didn't really get the OPs point about box pleats, they are a conventional pleat, maybe not as popular now as they once were but there is nothing un-trad about them.

Courtmount,

I based my comment in the OP about box pleats on Matt Newsome's history of that style of kilt. Apparently it is an older way of pleating that was revived in the 80s. Matt's site is here: http://kilts.albanach.org/

According to some of our traditionalists on the forum, it is rarely (never?) seen in the Highlands...

[Bugbear]

Yes Bugbear, let's not get into a long, boring discussion about what a "tradition" is. I'm hoping for more of a discussion about conventions outside of THCD. ...

Yep, nip it in the bud, kill it before it grows.