Why you don't see Scots wearing their kilts often

[Jock Scot]

[QUOTE=GG;959220]As long as the kilt business is blooming, and young people are standing in line to learn kilt making and become professional kilt makers, this attitude towards, in their eyes, rather stupid kilt wearers, often being Americans or otherwise foreign people, visiting their country, may be most understandable. Don't blame them. It is "their" kilt, after all.[/QUOTE



I think you are missing a very important point here Greg.I am guessing but I suspect the young Scots in question who do indeed pour scorn(vitriolic scorn quite often) on the kilt are from the Lowlands as it is not naturally "their" kilt. It never has been.

The young Highland Scot will just wonder what the occasion is, if they spot the kilt being worn in the day. It is true though, that they almost certainly will assume the wearer of the kilt not to be Scots. Nevertheless the young Highland Scot will generally take ownership of "their" kilt.

I think people also need to remember that out of a total Scottish population of about 5 million , LESS than a million people live in the Highlands and Islands.