Quote Originally Posted by Guinness>water View Post
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.