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    Quote Originally Posted by Woodsheal View Post
    Box- and Kingussie-pleated kilts are latter-day revivals of historic forms contemporaneous with the belted-plaid. Leaving aside the "comfort factor", to accept the first two forms as acceptable with "modern" attire, and to reject the latter (as another possible "revival"), is an entirely inconsistent argument - which argument then falls flat on its face.
    I find it inconsistent too, which really seems to leave those against the idea with pretty much only, "But even though there was an overlap of perhaps anywhere up to a century where the great kilt and small kilt were both being worn, we kept wearing some form of small kilt up to the present and we don't wear the great kilt any more and therefore the great kilt with modern accoutrements looks weird and inappropriate and we don't like it".

    Which also seems to me to be a perfectly valid contemporary Scottish cultural perspective.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dale Seago View Post
    I find it inconsistent too, which really seems to leave those against the idea with pretty much only, "But even though there was an overlap of perhaps anywhere up to a century where the great kilt and small kilt were both being worn, we kept wearing some form of small kilt up to the present and we don't wear the great kilt any more and therefore the great kilt with modern accoutrements looks weird and inappropriate and we don't like it".
    Ha! Indeed! Re: the folks who accept box- and kingussie-pleated kilts (but NOT the belted-plaid) it's even weirder: "We like and condone early, historic styles of kilts, just not the ones with those silly sections that go up your back and pin to your shoulder. Outrageous!"

    Anyways, I've flogged this particular dead horse way too much....
    Last edited by Woodsheal; 17th April 12 at 01:13 PM.
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