'It's a Dress!'

[morrison]

Ancient myself, my mother at 101 is even older-

My mom is older than me! and wiser!!

[pbpersson]

I can only speak for myself. I aint Scot. I aint nowhere near the United Kingdom. I wear my kilt when, where, at the length, and in the colors I choose. I adhere to the general mores of my society, and embrace loosely the values and traditions of my country's culture. The laws are made to be obeyed, and when appropriate, to be tested. It is always appropriate to question authority. That's one of my freedoms.

I'm with you 100%! This entire kilt thing.....I just don't know. I've only had mine for two weeks. I thought based upon how I was brought up that if I ventured outside in a kilt without a tartan that everyone would think it was a skirt and I would be arrested or something.

A few days after I got the kilt and was very nervously wearing it in public I was walking out of a pet store with cat food while an officer was walking in. He didn't bat an eyelash. So....there is another silly myth down the drain.

[pbpersson]

I took no offense at the "skirt" comment. Because, let's face it gents, it is a type of skirt.
Cheers

I was informed that calling it a skirt here is fighting words.

It might look like, move like, and feel like a skirt but the kilt is a skirt-like garment designed specifically for men and only shares a few characteristics with a skirt.

Upon closer examination one will discover it is a totally different sort of creation.

I wish there was some way to close the front of the thing. When I'm walking INTO the wind I'm not a happy camper.

[Ruanaidh]

to quote pbpersson "..... calling the kilt a skirt is sort of like calling a Lamborghini a car."

[Tim Walker]

In fashion a dress is a top and skirt in one piece, a skirt is just the lower part as an independent garment.

A woman does not have to be from Poland to be confused. What I don't understand is the woman who speaks English as her native tongue-yet compares a kilt to a dress.

[Jimmy the Celt]

The very construction of the kilt is different than a skirt. skirts do not wrap around the waist; they are cylindrical, and are put on in a manner similar to that of trousers, and must be pulled up and buttoned/zipped. The kilt, however, is more or less a continuous piece of fabric that wraps around the waist. You don't put your legs into the kilt to don the garment, as you would trousers, or a skirt. Instead, it wraps around, no need to even lift a foot.

Now, why would anyone call a kilt a skirt? Fighting words indeed. But I'm too nice of a guy to get into a fight over it. Usually.

[Blu (Ontario)]

.... Now, why would anyone call a kilt a skirt? Fighting words indeed. But I'm too nice of a guy to get into a fight over it. Usually.

My guess is that your average Joe Lunchbucket cares little about the details of why a kilt is different from a skirt.

[bubba]

The very construction of the kilt is different than a skirt. skirts do not wrap around the waist; they are cylindrical, and are put on in a manner similar to that of trousers, and must be pulled up and buttoned/zipped. .

Not neccesarily so. Wrap skirts are an exception to that, as they wrap in a similar manner as a kilt. They usually button at the waist and some use velcro these days.

[pbpersson]

skirts do not wrap around the waist; they are cylindrical, and are put on in a manner similar to that of trousers, and must be pulled up and buttoned/zipped. The kilt, however, is more or less a continuous piece of fabric that wraps around the waist. You don't put your legs into the kilt to don the garment, as you would trousers, or a skirt. Instead, it wraps around, no need to even lift a foot.
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Oh....I'm sorry....when I get my Utilikilts out of the washer I snap them together and pull them on when I'm going to wear them. When I take them off, I unsnap all the top snaps, pull them off, and then hang them in the closet pleats down.

Totally unsnapping the thing so it's this long piece of cloth seems way too complicated.