1 Great Kilt, 10 Looks: A Visual Guide to Modern Great Kilting

[Frigid Scot]

The photo I highlighted wasn't like that. Rather, it was consistent modern traditional Highland Dress (as it evolved in the early 20th century) with a fillamore substituted for the fillabeg.

And this was exactly my request on a previous thread about modern attire with a GK.

Is the GK an anachronism? Sure. But I would argue that many of the "modern" kilt attire are in fact somewhat anachronistic... updated a little perhaps, but certainly harkening back to an earlier day (epaulets and military buttons etc).

It just seems to me that the GK could fit in with modern attire just as its smaller sister garment has. After all, the very wearing of a kilt is in itself somewhat anachronistic: solidarity with a largely defunct medieval social system. And I'm all for it! But why does the GK not equally fit with this expression of solidarity? Perhaps even more so as the more "modern" garment was largely a military adaptation and a convenience product. If you want to know what your ancestor really wore, it was probably the GK.

And all of this is just to say I love both garments. But why must one be relegated solely to the past and "anachronisms", while the other gets a somewhat arbitrary label as modern?