Asking for a Friend

[Strider]

I'm asking a question for a friend who is wondering whether there are kilts for women and if so what is the proper way to wear it and proper length

[dutchy kilted]

Tell your friend yes there are! My wife got a great mini-kilt made from USAK, but there are varying lengths from long skirt to very short.

[Macman]

You'll get lots of viewpoints on this, but my experience is that most of the women I see wearing kilts are in pipe bands. I've also seen some non-bandswomen wearing regular kilts, and they can pull it off really well. The more traditional option is to wear tartan skirts, which come in varying lengths and styles. My wife favours mini-kilts, but they are really pleated skirts. There is lots to choose from, so your friend can get the style and length she feels most comfortable in.

[lethearen]

"Kilts" properly are men's garments. Women have enough choices w/o encroaching on ours! But it's easy enough to find kilted skirts in just about any length you (or she) want. Women's kilted skirts tend to fasten on the left instead of the right. In a pipe band, I think that women typically wear men's kilts these days, but otherwise pretty much anything goes.

[auld argonian]

They can get anything from a mini to a floor length...it's all good.

Frankly, I am mucho pro kilts on women. There are not a few darn good lookin' women in some of the pipe bands hereabouts and they look smashing in the kilt.

Best

AA

[Strider]

Okay so really a kilt for women is just a pleated skirt that is made from tartan?

[lethearen]

Okay so really a kilt for women is just a pleated skirt that is made from tartan?

I don't know that I'd call it "just a pleated skirt"... a lot of pleated skirts have pleats all around. A kilt, be it for a man or woman, would still need to have the flat apron in front. It should also probably be a true wraparound, as opposed to a step-into-and-pull-up type.

And kilts don't necessarily have to be of tartan either. Unless you are one of those who wouldn't call anything non-tartan a kilt... in which case you likely wouldn't call any woman's skirt a kilt, either, regardless of build/style

So assuming that a kilt can be made for a woman, and/or can be made of non-tartan, and can still be called a kilt by your own personal definition of the word... a woman's kilt could be considered just a wraparound skirt of virtually any length about or above the knees with pleats in the back and none in the front. That preferably closes on the left.

Or more simply, a woman's kilt is a kilt being worn by a woman.

[Jaggy thistle]

Thereis nothing nicer or sexier than a lady in a mini kilt or a longer kilt

[Semiomniscient]

Traditionally, a normal kilt is a man's garment. However, my friend who is a girl wears a kilt--however, she wears it like a skirt. She does not wear kilt hose, but rather black stockings, and usually a blouse with a vest that looks particularly feminine. I think this is perfectly acceptable and attractive. To me, if I see a woman in a kilt worn with kilt hose, bonnet, etc. I find her to look a little too "mannish"... even pretty lasses! This works for pipe band uniforms as everyone is supposed to look the same.

[Bugbear]

Traditionally, a normal kilt is a man's garment. However, my friend who is a girl wears a kilt--however, she wears it like a skirt. She does not wear kilt hose, but rather black stockings, and usually a blouse with a vest that looks particularly feminine. I think this is perfectly acceptable and attractive. To me, if I see a woman in a kilt worn with kilt hose, bonnet, etc. I find her to look a little too "mannish"... even pretty lasses! This works for pipe band uniforms as everyone is supposed to look the same.

"perfectly acceptable and attractive," also to you. Otherwise, I would agree.