I personally love the looks of a kilt with a THICK over-the-shoulder, hip-gathered plaid. When it's done right, it looks similar to a great kilt but MUCH neater and clean.

I'm not sure if you can see it in my Gallery, but Swanny is wearing this set-up at the Maryland Renn Faire gig. He's the blonde guy with the red kilt at the front of the stage. It didn't take me long to make the kilt, and took his wife even less to make the plaid gather.

It's worth consideration so that you can actually wear the thing more often.