I'd suggest that possibly due to modern communications and the media, the whole process is moving muh faster than we realise.

I say this because within the last five years I talked about this very subject to a kilted chum, and then we agreed that such a kilted of male dressing would not happen in our life times. However since then we have both changed our minds: why?

Because no longer do people look at one in the street etc as a curiosity-the kilt is accepted as normal.

The fact that here in the UK the kilt is depicted in the media on an almost daily basis: where a few years ago it was an oddity.

The mushrooming of kilt makers, and the makers of the so called kilts, such as Utilikilt.

The multiplicity of blogs and other electronic communications that are kilt related.

All suggestive of a caldera about to erupt.

As with as mentioned above, women and girls not wearing trousers at school/work: that too having long been a background issue, burst upon the scene about thirty years ago.

However we cannot forget the other side of the coin: and that many do associate male skirted garments, with cross dressing and homosexuality: like it or not that is a fact. As a consequence many men are still reluctant to don such garments, for fear of being accused of deviant tendencies. The humerous counterpoint being the urge of many wearers of faux kilts, to dress them up with sporrans etc, and so claim association with the masculine kilt.

James