Wearing the kilt backwards

**Colin** · 29th June 06, 08:57 AM

Even without the internet, there are so many references to see how a kilt is worn. I don't where you are located, but kilts in Vancouver (and Winnipeg) were very common when I was growing up. No one in my family has worn them for a generation or two (besides moi!!!), but with movies, parades, Rememberance Day, the fact we have a piper for any kind of occasion, etc, etc it would be pretty hard for me (personally) to say I had not seen enough kilts to know how it was to be worn.

Originally Posted by KiltedKnight

No. Anyone who thinks before they act would realize that the buckles would be wrong to begin with, why would anyone place the buckles backward?

This is my other point. Maybe it would be easy to put on a velcro closure kilt or a UK type kilt on backwards, but a traditional kilt would be difficult to put on backwards. It would feel like trying to put on dress pants backwards and do up the fly.

Maybe the kiltmakers need to send a 1 page info sheet with their kilts just in case.

**pbpersson** · 29th June 06, 12:34 PM

I have seen kilts in a few parades but really didn't pay any attention to how they were made or worn.

I was told by my parents as a kid that since I was not Scottish I could never wear a kilt in my life and so I never gave it much thought.

I always thought that skirt-like garments and kilts would be comfortable, but being a man and not Scottish I was told it was against the law or an insult to wear them so I figured I never could.

**Raphael** · 29th June 06, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by Colin

Maybe the kiltmakers need to send a 1 page info sheet with their kilts just in case.

Stillwater Kilts provides insructions on how to wear the kilt with every purchase.

**mbhandy** · 30th June 06, 04:40 AM

Originally Posted by Colin

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This is my other point. Maybe it would be easy to put on a velcro closure kilt or a UK type kilt on backwards, but a traditional kilt would be difficult to put on backwards. It would feel like trying to put on dress pants backwards and do up the fly.

When I was bartending one of my female customers left the bar with one of my male clients and came back with her jeans inside out and I asked her "I really want to know how you got your jeans zipped-up?" :rolleyes: she left for the ladies

MrBill