Putting on my grouchy old man hat (I have them) I'll say that Back In My Day there were only kilts.
When you said "kilt" it only meant one thing, because there were no others: a full yardage handsewn wool traditional kilt.
To me that's still what "kilt" means.
Anything else is a hyphenated or periphrastic kilt:
Casual-
Utility-
Sport-
Tactical-
21st Century-
Contemporary-
-skirt
The very presence of the modifiers required for all those not-quite-true-kilts allows the single word "kilt" to retain the meaning it's always had.
(As an aside, I get tired of hearing of these Tactical Kilts. That's small fry. What I want is a Strategic Kilt, a kilt that sees the big picture.)
Last edited by OC Richard; 14th June 20 at 12:16 PM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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