Well, it's all relative.

Having plunged deep into the archives, and reading hundreds of pages of posts, I discovered what for me was an interesting trend. In the earliest days of XMTS, at least in the surviving records, there seemed to be scant concern with what is traditional and what is not. Only as the forum grew, and more and more new members joined did a concern with defining the meaning of traditional and codifying laws for the Kilt Kops to enforce begin to take sway. Kiltoids weren't quite so serious in those days. Also, in the early days, there is little mention of Barb's book. It, too, is referred to more and more as things moved toward the present.


So, it seemed to me that an item on kilt making from 2004 is in a way ancient lore, as it's what people were doing before the XMTS consensus on the definition of traditional began to take shape.


Thanks for the interesting comments. Anymore? The anthropologist/sociologist/research fiend in me finds this sort of thing very interesting.