Hi from Arizona, everybody. I just found this site and I am excited about learning about how a proper kilt is worn and how it has evolved (if at all) down the ages.

I've always been curious about kilts and have just returned from a vacation (holiday for you UK'ers ) to Scotland where I got to see some countryside, some kilts and visit my ancestral holdings. This has increased my curiosity about kilts and also what the female counterpart to a kilt is. I saw several women wearing a pleated skirt (please, if its not called a "skirt" for women, I mean no disrespect. Please enlighten me) in thier chosen tartan. Has it always been thus? Is it also manually pleated as proper kilt is or does it have waistband sewn in?

In historical pictorials I have seen pictures of men wearing the kilt with an extra long piece worn over the shoulder. When and how is this worn? Have women ever worn it this way?

I am an aspiring fiction writer but truely believe one must write about what one knows. I am here to increase what I know for my writing and for my heritage.