Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
You have lost me on the "boiling frogs" thing, I am afraid.
Per Wikipedia: "The boiling frog story is a widespread anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability of people to react to significant changes that occur gradually. According to contemporary biologists the premise of the story is not literally true; an actual frog submerged and gradually heated will jump out. However, some 19th century research experiments suggested that the underlying premise is true, provided the heating is gradual enough."


The allusion, then, with Highland apparel is to slowly introduce it to people that are unaccustomed to it, until they accept it as the norm (or at least not completely out of the ordinary).