Well, Steve, I think you did a good job in posting the article, for all that it was a load of fashionista claptrap. It just puts our sartorial choices in context – to my mind an entirely sound context of wearing something that has a tradition behind it, rather than those weird skirt efforts the models are shown in.
For that matter, the model in a kilt doesn’t look right, either. Men who model kilts generally seem to do it wrong – is this the photographer, the model, or someone else who gets it all messed up?

On the subject of John the Baptist, two points:
Firstly, his camel-hair garment does have an echo of a belted plaid about it.
Secondly, there is nothing strange about either wild honey or locusts.
The Hebrews did keep bees, and probably sold their honey, too. But out in the desert there would have been no hives, and John would have had to make do with what the wild bees produced.
The desert on the Jordan’s banks was not as lifeless as it is now (not nearly as many goats to kill off the vegetation), and probably yielded very good honey from the spring flowers.
It is highly unlikely that John ate carob beans, because grasshopper-type locusts were kosher food.
Leviticus 11:21-23 has this to say on the subject (the source I located quotes the Revised Standard Version – most translations will tell you much the same):
Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those which have legs above their feet, with which to leap on the earth. Of them you may eat: the locust according to its kind, the bald locust according to its kind, the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind. But all other winged insects which have four feet are an abomination to you.
There was a type of locust that was not fit for eating, but unfortunately present-day knowledge of Ancient Hebrew is inadequate to determine what that type was. As a result there is a consensus among rabbis that since it is not known which locusts are not kosher, locusts should not be eaten at all.
Many societies still make regular use of locusts as food, and solitary prophets typically ate them in the absence of other food sources.
In fact, vast amounts of money are spent regularly on poisoning locust swarms (rendering them a biological hazard) when they could instead be caught and used to feed the starving.
Regards,
Mike