I would like to submit a proposal to the membership

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There's that word again, traditional. That's right. There should be room for people to discuss the traditional approach to wearing this traditional garment.

I agree! I don't have an issue with calling something "traditional". I suggested "Traditional Highland Wear" as a forum name option - which would be a new name for the existing forum which is already used to discuss traditional approaches to wearing a kilt with all its THCD-related variants. In fact renaming the existing forum would make it even more specific to the traditional style of dress as opposed to it's current description as a forum for all the various ways a person might wear a traditionally made kilt.

I think the word "tradition", which clearly evokes passion, will continue spark mild debate with regard to any question like: "is THIS traditional" or "is THAT traditional", in spite of the new THCD guidelines. Tradition is both old and new; both set and evolving... A moving target. I don't think my humor came across well with the in my little "here we go again..." moment toward the end of my last post. "Highland Event Wear" seems to be a more generalized way to say it, but that wording has it's obvious weaknesses as well.

So, I've gone back to review the descriptions of your "approaches" (Post #6 - seems like a long time ago!). Thanks for the reminder. I think we're basically on the same page, so we're still just debating the the labels at this point.

For me, "Neo"still works into the non-traditional (or modern) group, and "Theatrical" can still be grouped with historical. Re-aligning the three existing style forums would be preferred to a renaming and adding of additional forums. Will any rename/addition make everyone happy? after 141 posts in this thread I think we both know the answer to that. But structuring these style forums by approach (or general style of kilt dress) is a step in the right direction... if changes are made. I think I'm all done debating labels now . Thanks for engaging, Nathan.