First of all I am old enough that it is a wannabe Christopher Lambert / Connor McLeod and not a wannabe Mel Gibson /Wallace...lol.

I picked other in the poll, because the one I really wanted to pick was Pirates, but I have found them more of an infestation at Ren Faires than I have at Scottish Festivals. They are every bit as out of place there as they are other places, except of course Pirate Festivals.

As for puffy shirts (please no Sienfeld references) I have to admit to owning two, one was bought for non highland uses and is black and in a modern fabric. The other came from a vendor at a Highland Games, but was being sold as a colonial (late 1700's) era shirt and has buttons on the cuffs. That is in a nice rough linen. I have it mostly for ren faires and rarely wear it with my kilt.

If pixies showed up at Oktoberfest they would quickly be crushed by a bunch of drunk Germans who would likely sing a song about it later. I might even join them in singing it, if I were there. I don't like faeries and pixies much.

I will say I have possibly contributed to the misinterpretation of culture, in that I have worn my Scottish Kilt to Irish themed events. However it is noticed more at those then when I wear it for other reasons. I went out on Tartan Day and got no remarks or questions. I was in DC for ShamrockFest and the parade the next day and had more inquiries that I welcomed. I also will say that that festival featured no food that I could identify with any celtic nation but had American BBQ & Mexican food in large numbers.

The next day at the parade, there was a Mexican dance troupe and a Chinese dragon, along with rennies and my personal favorite: an anime club from a nearby publioc library, which ammounted to several overweight teens/twenties in street clothes with backpacks and really strange looking plastic swords over their shoulders.

As for the beer, it all boils down to price per keg. I helped out at a festival where the keg price was about 63 cents per cup, and the recommended retail was 6 dollars per cup. We only charged 3 dollars a cup and the distributor thought we were crazy for it. However that was for yellow American pee water called beer. I believe that anything with color or flavor or from an actual beer producing nation would have cost much more.