I do have my suspicions that the closing on the left woman's kilt is not traditional - as a girl I wore kilts - that is over 50 years ago now, and they closed on the right.

I can remember my Mum putting in the pin and stabbing my right leg with it.

Of course, 'traditionally' no honest woman would wear a mini skirt, or mini length anything in public - hence the Cutty Sark being so eye popping to Tam O'Shanter, and circus/music hall/theatre performers in tights being thought scandalous.

Those of Shakespeare's plays, (once women could act in them) where a woman disguises herself in male attire always attracted audiences keen to admire a shapely leg.

Hemlines for the masses rose only after the death of Queen Victoria.

If you wish to wear the arisaid then you need to be fully dressed beneath it - it is more like the open in front overskirt or coat dress of the 16th century European woman or child of either sex.

The 'Women's Modern National Dress' looks rather like a lightweight great kilt worn between a blouse and a waistcoat - which doesn't look right, it doesn't even look flattering.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: