No way could kilt wearing be called crossdressing. Only once a young drunk came up to me in Galashiels and asked me if I was a transvestite, when I was wearing a traditional kilt (only a few yards away from the old Lochcarron factory!!) but I treated him with the contempt he deserved, pretended I hadn't heard and walked on. Some of the non-traditional kilts are, from my own perception as a native Scot, more like cargo skirts than my long held idea of what constitutes a kilt, but even so they are obviously men's garments, with their thick, rough, material and big cargo pockets which certainly would not flatter a female figure. I wear non-trad kilts quite often and have never been accused of cross dressing while wearing them. There is a company in England which makes unpleated denim cargo skirts for men with zip fly fronts and even when wearing one of these the very few comments I have had have all been positive and all have referred to it as a kilt. Anyway my wife wears trousers every day and I wouldn't want to dress in the same clothes as my better half.
Regional Director for Scotland for Clan Cunningham International, and a Scottish Armiger.
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