Quote Originally Posted by Canadian_Kilt View Post
Basically, she feels that they are meant for formal occasions only,
She is right. They are not for working on the farm, digging ditches, swimming, riding a horse in a race, cleaning windows of a high rise building and all kinds of other activities or occasions.
Neither are suits or, more comparable, sports coats and "dress slacks" (kilt with a tweed jacket).
Kilt=Woolen dress slacks
Walking about in town is an "occasion" that has its own rules and forms of etiquette.
In much of American society the normative style is either as an itinerant day laborer (albeit perhaps with "designer labels") or an escapee from aerobic class. And once in town the "cool" folks are seen holding some coffee in a paper cup and a muffin from Starbucks and the others wolfing down a hamburger from Wendy's or some other chain...
and that wearing them outside of that is wierd -
To be well dressed in breeches or a kilt for a walk is perhaps "wierd" in much of American (and European) society today but its odd that having a snake tattooed across the face, with burn marks ("branding") and having fangs protruding from their nose and an assortment of odd objects reemed into ("piercings") and under ("implants") flesh is de-rigueur (also in Scotland)?
her comment was that no one would wear a tux on a normal day.
A tuxedo is not day wear. Morning and afternoon have different styles. My main take against the tuxedo is that most are of very poor quality and workmanship.
In my youth I did for a while wear a tux and public school tie as my "everyday" garb as "intellectual punk". So the follies of youth.

Some of this was very hurtful .. comments like being concerned about my mental health for thinking about wearing one on any regular basis. She says normal people just don't do that .. not even in Scotland!
Has she been to Scotland? And who are the "normal" people she means? The Asian selling fish and chips in Glasgow? Or the people living along the Spey? One can, of course, argue that Saxons like kilt "poster child" Charles Mountbatten-Windsor (aka. "HRH Prince Charles of Edinburgh") are not "normal" but hardly "weird".

Clothing is not just functional or we'd all be walking about in grey Chairman Mao suits or burlap bags and there would not be a multi-billion (over $200 billion USD) market for clothing. There is.