Something that Hamish wrote years ago that stuck in my head

[ThistleDown]

That was an extreme edit, Alan, but thank you. You see, this isn't all about you, or about how you or any other of us wear the kilt in California or elsewhere in this wide world, but about the international forum called XMTS and how all of us -- from all over -- wear this 'garment', and how we wear it relative to where it is iconic. For many of us it is traditional dress, for some it is costume or uniform, and for others it is perhaps a rebellion against what is the 'norm' in their part of the world.