What are we allowed to post in this section?

[OC Richard]

For sure it's difficult, with so many potential crossover topics.

For example, taking only the first page of "general kilt talk" there's a thread about sporrans, a thread about feather bonnets, a thread about boots, and a thread about a jacket. All could potentially be moved to "accessories".

The term "accessories" means different things to different people. For whatever reason I consider the things that actually clothe the body, and usually made of woven or knit wool (hats, jackets, kilts, socks) to be "clothing" and the other things, usually leather or metal (belts, sporrans, kilt pins, cap badges) to be "accessories".

A kilt jacket, to me, cannot be regarded as an accessory because its equivalent Saxon thing is an inseparable part of the suit. A Highland "suit of clothes" (as it were) would consist of the kilt, jacket, and hose (which are an exposed essential element, not hidden like the socks worn with a Saxon suit). Indeed the visual impact of Highland Dress is divided into three somewhat equal thirds hose/kilt/jacket (covering the same space as the trousers and jacket of a Saxon suit). "Accessories" then might be everything else.

What I tend to post here are 1) things regarding vintage kilt photos and 2) things regarding Highland military garb, there being no "Highland military dress" forum (I sometimes wish there were).

Well I suppose trying to keep the boundaries between sections maintained is a constant headache for the moderators. Since there's so much overlap I don't think about it much, however one thread of mine was moved to a patently incorrect forum: a thread about the Cumbric language which was moved to the "Gaelic languages" forum. Putting aside the fact that "Gaelic languages" is itself an oxymoron, there are no grounds for putting a thread about a language which is not Gaelic into that forum (unless of course the forum is re-named). I correctly put my post in the "miscellaneous" forum, but it was moved.

It would be like having a thread about the Toyota Landcruiser moved into a forum called "The Jeep Wranglers".