The language and the dress don't always go together and I would be surprised if the kilts came out any more regularly than they do on the mainland.

In July I spent a week in Ullapool which is where the Stornoway ferry sails from and only saw two other guys wearing kilts besides myself.

On my next visit I intend to take the ferry, kilted of course, and my eyes will be on the lookout for kilts on arrival in Stornoway

The general view appears to be that whilst many people own kilts they tend be be kept for special occasions rather than everyday wear so they will come out for church, weddings, dinner dances, mods, highland games and tattoos and rugby matches but be as rare as rocking horse poo the rest of the time.

Would love to be proved wrong though in the case of Lewis but I'm not hopeful!