Please tell me if I'm being told lies by my bad bf......

[O'Searcaigh]

Semper ubi sub ubi.

Semper vestis subligaculum? Nunquam? Nonnunquam? Qui cura?

[Father Bill]

Semper vestis subligaculum? Nunquam? Nonnunquam? Qui cura?

You do, and you'll clean it up my friend!

[Father Bill]

Actually my late Mom (b. 1909) was a teenaged flapper in the later 20s. She never said as much, and it never actually struck me until I was going through the photo albums one day. Gave me a real grin.

Remember that short clothes are a relatively modern innovation - no respectable woman would wear a garment as short as a modern kilt in Victorian times - and although the 'flappers' wore their skirts short in the roaring Twenties (1920s) they would have caused consternation in the streets - longer length coats and capes were de rigeur.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[O'Searcaigh]

You do, and you'll clean it up my friend!

[eagle43172]

I assume we're talking standard kilt length or longer. (If the waitresses went regimental at The Tilted Kilt the company would have to reclassify what type of establishment they are!)

[thescot]

1) If my wife were to wear one, I would ask her to refer to it as a kilted skirt.

2) Wear it traditionally? Absolutely! Freeeeeedom!!!!!!

3) I would recommend leaving the sporran to your feller. I think sporrans look horrible on ladies. Just my opinion though.

All I can say is, "Ditto."

If you haven't yet noticed, women and men almost always have a much greater diference between the measure of the circumference of the waist and the measure of the hips. Men often have only a very few inches difference, but it's not unusual for women to have 10 inches or even more. That means that the fell of a true kilt tends to make a lady's shape appear, je ne sais quoi, odd! Yes, a woman can wear a kilt, but a kilted skirt looks much better on the female frame. Of course, you can make the fell fit the more generous hips of a woman, but the effect really looks odd because the sett cannot be maintained.

I don't want my wife to wear a kilt unless she takes up the bagpipes and marches in a band (in which case a kilt would be appropriate). But I am for a kilted, i.e., pleated wrap skirt. Vive la difference! A skirt shows her shapeliness; a kilt would mask it. For similar reasons, I wouldn't want my wife wearing one of my business suits, it's just not cut for a woman's figure.

And a sporran if totally unnecessary for a lady. A sporran-like puse would be nice, but I wouldn't wear it around my waist if I were you. Tends to detract from the figure I mentioned earlier.

Going regimental is alays a personal choice whether kilted or no, and it is best left to you to decide. I can understand his urging you to do so, but it has little to do with requirements of being kilted.

[thescot]

Just a guess, but regarding #2 he may be thinking of making a silk purse out of a sow's ear as per Liam Neeson's Rob Roy movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpIJCn-r72I


So I hope ye like him fine!

Well, duh! If he's a red-blooded boy that's what he's thinkin'.

Same reasons I've made the same suggestion for other-than-kilt apparel when my wife is getting dressed. The fact is, there really are times when a lack of undergarments is not only correct, but called for.

Kilts are not necessarily in that category, but . . .

Even old dogs can hunt.

[piperdbh]

Qui cura?

Io curo.

[thescot]

P.S. No you're not being told "lies" per se, it's just that he's so enamored by you that he's willing to prevaricate somwhat. He sounds like a great guy, and I'm sure he just wants you to look your best because he is so proud of being seen with you.

(There is that male code, you know.)

[BCAC]

Io curo.

What does this mean?????????

I thought that this was an ENGLISH speaking (writing?) kilt forum?

Sorry if this is