Two Telling comments? The Answer Perhaps?

[neloon]

To revert to the original question "Why do the Scots wear the kilt only on special occasions?" I'm not sure that this is peculiar to Scots. As an example, 50 or so years ago, Indian girls in Scotland (mostly students) routinely wore saris (and complained about the cold). Nowadays, sadly, the sari seems to be reserved for "special occasions". So the issue may be to do with globalisation (?Americanisation) and hopefully such desire for uniformity is just a passing phase.
Alan