'It's a Dress!'

[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.