Women and Kilt Wearing

[Southern Breeze]

I think women wear kilts because they're jealous of all the attention we men get while wearing them.

[Kilted Stuart]

For me,
The kilt is made as a mans garment. I hate to say it but a woman in a real kilt looks sort of manly. I'm not sure they're a womanly garment. I don't think women in pipe and drum bands are nessisarily going for all out femininity, its the functional uniform of the unit. There wearing the kilt for the band and tartan they represent. They would look worse in tartan Trews in a band.

I do like a mini hip hugger in tartan. Even a slightly longer version. There more Fashion and feminine fun. There not a kilt in the true sence but allow a woman ( my wife included) to wear her family tartan but still look feminine.

I guess thats fair enough

Kilted Stuart

[Jeremiah]

I do like a mini hip hugger in tartan. Even a slightly longer version. There more Fashion and feminine fun. There not a kilt in the true sence but allow a woman ( my wife included) to wear her family tartan but still look feminine.

Which is precisely my point as well, women may have adopted trousers, but the shape, cut, and style was altered for women.

[Space Moose]

Which is precisely my point as well, women may have adopted trousers, but the shape, cut, and style was altered for women.

Name too?

There are many types of pants and shirts that are essentially identically made for a man or woman, just shaped slightly differently.

Why are the rules for kilts made identically any different than the other clothes that that were traditionally "for men" that are made identically for men and women?

Explain why a woman shouldn't wear jeans, shirts, etc they buy in the men's section. If you'd say it doesn't look aesthetically pleasing to you, that's fine, but taste really shouldn't be brought into deciding right and wrong... Is it really cross-dressing if a woman wears a mens t-shirt and jeans?

I guess I just can't understand the notion that kilts 'belong to men' and 'are not for women', especially when the reasons for that can't be explained better than 'just because'.

Craig

[Kiltman]

Perhaps, we should all wear nothing. Then, no one would be concerned about which garment belongs to a woman or a man.

[UmAnOnion]

Perhaps, we should all wear nothing. Then, no one would be concerned about which garment belongs to a woman or a man.

This idea gets my vote :grin:

[Jerry]

I think that some of the negativity to this idea comes from the fear that should women generally adopt the kilt as a female garment, then those males who wear them would come to be seen as crossdressers. It's sarcastic, of course, but you see a little of this in replies to the question ask, by ignorant people, of kilt wearing men (Why are you dressing like a woman?) The answer of course is, "if I wanted to dress like a woman I'd be wearing jeans". However, Shay makes the point that she tells people that "it is a men's kilt". I really see nothing wrong with that. She is not trying to "take over kilts" and make them women's wear. I did see a discussion on semantics of another board that I was on before I found XMARKS. I think it was Tom's. Anyhow, it was about skirts. The point was made, that if a man owns the skirt, it is still a women's skirt, but it becomes a man's skirt, i.e. belonging to that man. The same could be said of any kilt owned by a woman. It is a woman's kilt (belongs to that woman), but still a men's kilt.

[cavscout]

The way to protect the kilt from women is to tell them that the kilts make their butts look big :mrgreen:

[clancelt]

The way to protect the kilt from women is to tell them that the kilts make their butts look big :mrgreen:

LOL, great, so then they stop wearing the kilt and we all get cut off for weeks. I'm not willing to accept that as a fair trade :-(

[Planopiper]

This comes up in pipe bands all the time. As a general rule, the kilts don't look good on the female members and that’s because they aren't designed for a female figure. The construction of a kilt is intended to fit the male physique. Sometimes women have them altered to fit, but then they’re still wearing something designed for a man, but modified.

Kilt skirts are a different animal and are constructed differently.

The newer, cheaper, less structured kilt-like garments and kilt wannabes don’t have the same construction. That’s why many of them look, to me, sloppy on a man and can be worn by a woman without alteration.

Personally, I like the idea of a woman wearing a kilt skirt in the same tartan as her man’s kilt, but I have yet to see a woman who looked better in a real kilt than in some variation of a kilt skirt.