While enjoying this typical mid-June Chicago day, mid-80s and swamp-humidity, in cotton cargo kilt and "Hawaiian" shirt (NOT TCHD!)...

...thoughts came...

..."What if, when Scots did the grand diaspora beginning in the late 17th century, THEY HAD (largely) KEPT the kilt as their primary garment for men?"

As time passed and settlers acclimated to "not Scotland" climes, The Kilt would have evolved independently in quite a few parts of the world, from Canada and the northern part of North America (where it would likely have stayed about the same), to the Americas, South, Australia, New Zealand, India, Eygpt, Kenya, Polynesia, Singapore....

Personal guess is, "TCHD" for work, casual and dress would look a little different in each locale.

Solid colours, lighter fabrics, different styles of pleating (if any) and the rough cotton / canvas duck / leather cargo / workman's kilt might have evolved much earlier than the 1990s. Perhaps parti-hued pareo types could have evolved in the Pacific.

What think ye, Esteemed Rabble?