Hi swat88

I think if you're happy with it, you should wear it. It sounds like it's a nice tartan! Alternatively, it's not such a hard job to have someone who knows how to sew take both the apron and underapron off and exchange them, hiding the seam in the deep pleat next to the apron and underapron edge. That way, you could have a kilt that opens on the right.

What follows is something I wrote in another thread about the issue of a "man's" kilt and a "woman's kilt":

If we're talking _traditional_ kilts here, then there's only one kind of kilt, and it's a man's garment. Traditionally speaking, women aren't supposed to wear kilts. So there's really no such thing as a man's kilt and a woman's kilt. There's just a traditional Highland kilt that is hand stitched, typically has 7-8 yards of tartan, opens on the right (from the perspective of the wearer), comes to the top of the knee cap, etc. Now, before anyone gets all lathered up, remember that I'm talking about traditional kilts here!

There is another garment called a kilted skirt (or sometimes a hostess kilt) that opens on the left, is commonly longer than top-of-the-knee, is made of lighter fabric, is usually machine-stitched, and has much less fabric and none of the traditional internal construction of a traditional kilt. This isn't a "woman's kilt" (which is really an oxymoron), but it is a garment that women commonly wear.

Having said all this, lots of women wear kilts. I mean real, traditional kilts described in paragraph one. Any woman in a pipe band wears a traditional kilt, and all girls (except the wee ones) and women who compete as Highland dancers wear traditional kilts that open on the right and have all of the same kind of construction as a "man's" kilt. That's one of the reasons it costs so much to outfit a Highland dancer - they aren't dancing in costume but rather in the national dress of Scotland.

Cheers,

Barb