Or “I’m not wearing pants! Waddya goin’ to do about it?”
I would and I have. I wore a kilt at my wedding, with the full Prince Charlie outfit.
My surname has links to a particular Scottish highland clan, (being an anglicized version of it) but my family tree has not been traced to the best of my knowledge past England itself. So who knows if I actually have Scottish ancestors or not.
Do they make Speedo Depends in the Craig tartan? 
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Since you answered me, here’s an idea I had about 15 years ago: skin tone running shorts. 
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Never have, but always wanted to.
Yep. Got some Scottish ancestry back the way of my great-grandmother, but that’s nowhere near enough to count. Decent tartan pattern though.
I’ve only worn a great-kilt, never one of the tailored ones. I originally wanted one for Renaissance faires, and put a bit of effort into it, like researching my actual family history and figuring out what kind of shirt and boots I should wear, etc.
If you know what you’re doing, you can pleat one of the big bloody things in a small space. Here’s a really abbreviated instruction set for doing it. Don’t fold it on the floor, but rather hold the top edge of the cloth and pleat it a bit like you’re doing a butterfly coil on a rope. Leave a length about a cubit (elbow to extended fingertips) unpleated in front. Throw the top edge over your shoulder, get the bottom edge to the right length at just below your kneecap. Neaten up the pleats and belt it loosely. Yes, you’ve got your ass hanging out still. You can drop the cape section behind you at this point
Form the front skirt with the unpleated section at the front, draw some of the pleats from the back around to your opposite hip. You should now have two thicknesses of cloth covering your front from hip to hip. Adjust the rear pleats to run evenly around your back, make sure your bottom hem is more or less even. Tighten your belt a bit.
Find the center of the cape section. Depending on the width of your tartan, you’ll either pull and twist that part to drape over your left shoulder, or if the width is more like a modern standard size, you’ll do better to start with a hunk behind your left hip. Pin that to your shirt seam for now. Grab the left corner of the cape section by your ankle and twist it a bit. Wrap it around your waist and tuck it under your belt. Grab the corner on the right, pull and twist, and bring that section up to your left shoulder. Unpin the back section from your shirt, but keep the pin stuck through all those folds so that you can just shove it through the hunk from the right corner. Adjust so’s you look pretty. It’s not as neat as the floor-fold version, but you can do it in a much, much smaller space without getting twigs, leaves, or fire ants on your tender bits from the cloth being dragged around on the ground.
As functional garments, great-kilts are awesome. You don’t need to sew anything. You don’t need anything but a wide belt to form the kilt. You don’t really need a shirt or shoes to look hunky and awesome (assuming you approach either hunky or awesome in a partially unclothed state) as wearing just the kilt is reportedly “yummy.” And as an added bonus here, all you need to get naked is to take off your belt. Or just lift the front if you’re not interested in getting more naked than you need to get the job done 
And are they good for picking up chicks at a Ren Faire? Better than anything else in the price range. You’d need armor or upper-class garb to get more female attention, both of which are a shitload more expensive than the required several yards of good-quality wool.
The twisted sections form huge pockets, if done properly. You can stash all kinds of stuff in there if you want to, and secure them with a tighter twist. The cloak part, if the tartan is wide enough, can be draped over your head as an actual cloak, and the twisted apron bits can be wrapped around your body for warmth. And yes, they are damn warm. If it were sideways-driven sleet, I might want breeks underneath, but in anything less than that, a cool breeze is mighty refreshing.
Utilikilts look fun, but yeah, way too expensive for something that I’d wear only a couple times a year, if that.
I’ve seen that look. I think the guys I saw were FsOAF in the fetish/BDSM community.
It’s a really hot look if you can pull it off.
Aahhhh, taste. There’s no arguing that, is there? Lol.
My friends who do it are gamers and also into the industrial music scene. There’s a lot of crossover, I suspect, between that and BDSM-wear (at least in public). IMO, it’s a look that works on a particular type of guy regardless of body type. I’ve seen guys ranging from rail-thin to quite large pull it off, if they have the right look and attitude.
“Now, the kilt was only for day-to-day wear. In battle, we donned a full-length ball gown covered in sequins.” -Groundskeeper Willie
As far as I know, my ancestry is 100% Irish (though there are a few blind alleys in my genealogy, so who knows what else MIGHT be in my bloodlines).
I’ve never worn a kilt, a sombrero, a kimono, a dashiki, a turban, a yarmulke, a coolie hat, lederhosen or wooden shoes, either. At my age (50, I’m not likely to do so now!
I’m not saying I’d NEVER do it, but it’s hard to imagine any situation in which it would make sense for me to do so. If I were travelling in the Highlands and wore a kilt, locals would probably laugh at the stupid Yank tourist trying to blend!
Maybe I’d wear a kilt at a costume party, or in the (unimaginble) event that Scottish friends urged me to (of course, even THEN, I’d suspect the friends were playing some kind of joke on me!).