As with all things social, context is everything. When I need to be concerned with how I am received by others I will dress in ways that reflect my intentions (to wit: I would not use beachwear for an interview; I would not wear an expensive kilt to a water park). However, in the wider sense of things, I also find that men's wear in our culture tends to be uninspired and rigid, although I admit to seeing what is being offered in Milan the other year and swearing a resounding 'NO!!".

If we were truly as fashion conscious as some suggest we would not be wearing kilts but, rather, we'd be keeping up with the runways. We don't. We like kilts. For reasons many and varied, we like kilts. And we wear them. Just as some people like to wear basketball uniforms as clubwear while others wear only shapeless black clothes and still others wear only the latest and most expensive designer labels, we all wear what we would choose given our own, personal contexts.

At least, that's what I think today.