Women and Kilt Wearing

[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.

[Pleater]

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.

The cheap kilt I bought (the only 'real' one I have encountered in the cloth) is straight up and down, with a piece of nasty cheap flawed cotton sewn in across the back pleats to hold them - irregularly, in 'place'

It is the exact opposite of something that would fit a typical female shape.

I need a shorter wider fell than the typical man - from what I can find out online, and the suppresion of the pleats needs to be concentrated in the middle half of the pleats, and can be abandoned in the pleats at the edges which just fall straight down.

This might be due to my still quite active lifestyle, a lot of walking and cycling - despite being rather overweight I lack the typical female padding on the rump. I have never uttered the DMBLBIT question - (you'll understand if I ever dare to post a photo) - that is always fine, its everywhere else thats the problem.

As I can make almost anything in the clothing and household line I am sometimes surprised at what people regard as acceptable quality of fit and manufacture.

Maybe pipe bands need to seek out someone to smarten them up and get their uniforms properly fitted.

I often see dance teams, traditional English dance and song is another of my passions, and it really shows when one or two of them have got the skill to make and fit clothes. Some of the more punk - or is it Goth now(?) look truly amazing. Even the more staid ones can look really neat.

[KiltedKnight]

I've read these posts and I really can't believe what some are saying. A spouse or partner should be a compliment to their other half, it's not a contest but some make it so and that has been accepted by some. I can't accept it though. My wife is a compliment to me, what I lack in my life she has plenty of, I'm not much of a conversationalist but she is I'm not much in the looks department but she is. There is no contest between us and there never was. When I hear that someone's wife must have a Kilt if the husband is going to get a Kilt I can't see where that's anything but competition where there should be none. My wife knows her place, she never questioned it since before we married. Her place is at my side guideing me and supporting any decisions that I make and my place is paying heed to her suggestions
because I've learned that she is generally right. In other words, my wife navigates but I steer. My wife would never question the fact that a Kilt is a mans garment and that her kilted skirt opens to the left.
My wife is happy in her role in life and is happy to let men be men without trying to interfere with the nature of things. I myself have no problem doing the dishes and the laundry or cleaning the house when it's necessary. 21 years in the military showed me that I can take care of myself not only in a ruckus but also at the kitchen sink, today I am a truck driver and my wife is a radiologist so you know who has more brains and it's not me but in 18 years she's never made that an issue. I guess what I'm trying to say in my ramblings here is that if there is competition between men and women over a garment or anything then there is something very wrong.

Chris.

P.S. I am not afraid to say that my wife wears the pants in our family...but I take them off.