For ren type of affairs, I prefer to dress in modern kilt and kit, just as I would if going anywhere else. My own reasoning is that I like to wear the kilt, but history is also very important to me (history teachere here), and I don't have a full set of late 16th, 17th, or 18th century clothing. So rather that wearing a mish-mash of clothing from different periods and contributing to the idea that the kilt is a costume or something that William Wallace would have worn, I go the route of wearing my normal, modern clothes.

All that said, I also agree that for some folks, the dress up however you want and just have fun approach is the only way to go. As has been mentioned over and over, this is not the place for true living historians to strut their stuff.

Quote Originally Posted by jason10mm View Post
Yeah, you are doing to die wearing 8 yards of fabric. I have a 4 yard long great kilt and it is a LOT of fabric to arrainge around you.

I'm using woodsheal's pic as a basis for my ren fair outfit as it is relatively cheap once you get the kilt and a lot of it can be hand made with only modest talent, plus at ren fairs in the south the less I can wear, the better

I do agree that I will look fairly shabby compared to other kilted fair-goers, much less the decked out hard core ones, but walk with some confidence and I have little doubt I will represent well. Just have to get that bonnet looking right....
Sounds like a sound plan!

...but if you want the bonnet to look right, it has to be hand knit and felted.