Garment Names For Dummies

**Kilted_John** · 14th November 06, 05:10 PM

Do it... ;-) Then, let us know what his reaction is...

-J

**motorman4life** · 14th November 06, 08:54 PM

We have gone round-and-round here on this topic and while it is true that a kilt is technically a man's skirt, calling a kilt is a skirt would be like calling a tuxedo a mere suit or calling a diamond a stone.

The fact is, there is a difference between a kilt and a woman's skirt and when idiots choose to contemptuously and mockingly label your kilt a skirt, they are not trying to be technical, literal or precise; they are trying to disparage the wearer (as being a transvestite) by demeaning the kilt as being a common women’s skirt.

My usual response is “If you prefer to call my kilt a skirt, because it turns you on (to think of me in a skirt), then knock yourself out!”

**corbinj** · 15th November 06, 09:48 AM

I used to get that kinda guff from my younger brother. He would call my kilts skirts and all the other things the uneducated do, one day I asked him straight out what his problem was. His response was very telling, he said he would never have the courage to do somthing so far from normal. I said, you mean you don't have the balls? Yep that was it. He has been many places with me in my kilt. He has seen the reactions of people, especially women. I don't think it will be long for him outside of kilts. I just keep letting him know about kilts and kilt makers. The weird thing, I heard him defending the kilts to my mom. kilt on!

**arrg-isle** · 28th November 08, 01:50 PM

I'm pretty lucky I guess; either due to my burliness of girth, or the inexplicable (but undeniable) ex-cop vibe I tend to give off, I hear very few disparaging remarks . . of course, running my own business in the town I grew up in also gives me an edge.
But I do indeed hear "the skirt remark", from time to time - sometimes droll, sometimes pleasantly baiting, sometimes exploratory.
And if they aren't trying to obviously irritate me, what I prefer for a response is: "It's a kilt, not a skirt; if I wore something under it, then it would be a skirt!"
That nearly always elicits nods & murmurs of amused enlightment, or outright, good-natured laughter, and a resulting sense of appeasement.
Occasionally, a male of equivalent size to myself will actually follow-up my response with a genuinely derogatory remark, and then I know that it's time to either begin assertively ignoring him, or go nose-to-nose for a little MYOB reminder . . all depending on the venue of the when & where.

**Standard** · 28th November 08, 02:02 PM

Sounds like a clear case of what a friend of mine would call "cranium anal inversion."

**Panache** · 28th November 08, 02:10 PM

Bear in mind folks that this incident did happen 2 YEARS ago!

Water under the bridge and all

Cheers

Jamie

**Nighthawk** · 28th November 08, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by Panache

Bear in mind folks that this incident did happen 2 YEARS ago!

Water under the bridge and all

Cheers

Jamie

Never mind- my comment is withdrawn.

**Nighthawk** · 28th November 08, 02:54 PM

Originally Posted by motorman4life

We have gone round-and-round here on this topic and while it is true that a kilt is technically a man's skirt, calling a kilt is a skirt would be like calling a tuxedo a mere suit or calling a diamond a stone.

The fact is, there is a difference between a kilt and a woman's skirt and when idiots choose to contemptuously and mockingly label your kilt a skirt, they are not trying to be technical, literal or precise; they are trying to disparage the wearer (as being a transvestite) by demeaning the kilt as being a common women’s skirt.

My usual response is “If you prefer to call my kilt a skirt, because it turns you on (to think of me in a skirt), then knock yourself out!”

I said something along those lines once- I asked the guy if the women he goes for are so masculine that they look like a bearded redhead or if he just thinks I'm hot. And then I called him Booboo and told him to look for his Yogi somewhere else.

**hagridhorse** · 28th November 08, 03:22 PM

as a scot i find it offenceive and derogetory men ware kilts women ware dresses or skirts there is no such thing as a womans kilt we are proud of who we are and where we come from my own clan (macmillan has a history of 1000 years fought alngside Robert the Bruce and Bonnie prince Charlie as culloden one other thing if anybody says scotch (eerrrch i hate that) tell them its scots or scottish scotch is what we drink not our nationality
regards