Proabably stepping in it....but...

[Graham]

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but from what reference materials and highland dress I've seen, a kilt has two buckles on the right and one on the left, but a tartan skirt had two on the left and one one the right, similar to how men's shirts and pants are buttoned opposite women's blouses and pants.

Now, it shouldn't be that difficult to switch the second strap right to left, should it? A very simple alteration (I'm leaving out the direction of the pleats, because I can't recall of the top of my head). Men's kilt one way, tartan skirt the other. Just a thought.

that's true and a good point. I think Pipe bands should adopt that one concession at the very least!

[Iolanthe]

Hmm. I wouldn't even think of wearing a kilt. It doesn't bother me to see other women wearing kilts, but I personally would feel odd wearing one. Men wear kilts, women wear skirts... I don't see why a woman would want to wear one when there are endless styles of skirts to choose from.

Besides, we really ought to leave you men something of your own.

Ione

[Hamish]

Hmm. I wouldn't even think of wearing a kilt. It doesn't bother me to see other women wearing kilts, but I personally would feel odd wearing one. Men wear kilts, women wear skirts... I don't see why a woman would want to wear one when there are endless styles of skirts to choose from.

Besides, we really ought to leave you men something of your own.

Ione

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Ione. You deserve a hug, but my arms won't reach that far! (Wherever you are!!).

[Kilted Stuart]

My wife wears a Canadian Casual Kilts hip hugger mini. We all know it's not a kilt and never said it was. Most ladies ask Machummel if they can get a ladies kilt skirt. Kilt refers to the material, apron and pleats but the skirt is what it really is. A Catholic school girls uniform is called a kilt. I'ts a skirt, we know that, it doesn't even look the same.
I'm not partial to a woman in a full kilt myself. It the only masculine garment I know that men can ware exclusively.

[Southern Breeze]

Women in mens kilts.I'm not touching that one.One of my relatives is a paramedic/instructer.He says the look on a new EMTs face when they start cutting off clothes and find out that HE is a SHE or vice-versa is priceless.That first encounter really gets them.

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Ione. You deserve a hug, but my arms won't reach that far! (Wherever you are!!).

Ione, you have truly made yourself a member of the forum, and with only 2 posts (although good timing did not hurt) by being welcomed by Ham AND offered a hug! I never got a hug (sniff, sniff) and I have been here for ages (well at least 2 weeks!).

Later,
RJI

[Canuck]

I guess we can blame Lord Baden Powell. I recall a conversation between my mother and a friend of hers. This woman (Betty) was born and raised in Scotland. The conversation was about Betty joining the Girl Guides to see if it was really true that the guides didn't wear underwear under their kilts.
Now this was happening way before the majority of the members here were born! As Betty is well into her eighties...do the math! And how long has the wee kilt and tartans, as we know them, been around? 250 years?
Now if you take a rectangular piece of material 40"x72" wrap it around your body depending on how it's wrapped it is both a female and a male garment worn by a majority in this world. A sarong is considered a unisex garment.
I know most women think guys are sexy in a kilt. Like the looks of a man in a kilt and have no problem with it. I also know, most males rather see a woman in a skirt, dress, kilt than a pair of pants.
I asked one of my daughters this morning if she thought kilts were a man only garment... Her reply would offend some of you here so I won't go there.
Bottom line is you wear a kilt, you feel comfortable in who you are...what's the problem? We have a whole other thread geared to responses on what other people think and replies to that issue.
If you think about it, most of the questions asked are where is the band playing? and what's the occasion?
Best put on your kilt two legs at a time......
Cheers
Robert

[KiltedBishop]

Hmm. I wouldn't even think of wearing a kilt. It doesn't bother me to see other women wearing kilts, but I personally would feel odd wearing one. Men wear kilts, women wear skirts... I don't see why a woman would want to wear one when there are endless styles of skirts to choose from.

Besides, we really ought to leave you men something of your own.

Ione

Thank you!