Graham

I had this same experience on my ten day trip to Edinburgh and the Grampian Highlands earlier this summer, where I wore kilts 9 out of ten days, but only saw one "civilian" (regular Scot pedestrian) wearing a kilt, and even he looked like he likely worked for one of the shops on the royal mile. I did see numerous kilts obviously related to wedding parties, a few on kilt shopkeepers, and several on street pipers, or at formal functions. A couple of obvious tourists in the 30gbp kilts and goofy t-shirts were part of a walking tour along the royal mile. I asked a few people at the better kilt shops and they said that Scots generally only wear them at formal events like weddings and special ceremonies, and at highland games, but almost never on a routine day basis. One of them said he only knew of one or two Scots who actually had more than one kilt (except for the piping squads, of course). He said that most of his custom kilt sales were to tourists or for oversees shipping instead of to locals. But the tat shops are sure loaded with the cheap ones, aren't they?

jeff