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    The kilt prophet

    Quote Originally Posted by chasem View Post
    Don't think you have to worry about that... as these "kilts" look nothing like true kilts.
    Think of the future!! First it'll be this, then soon...THE KILT!!!

    Yeah, I'm exagerating(sp??).
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    "Long Live the Long Shirts!"- Ryan Ross

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    As we say in Western North Carolina, "They, law have mercy!"
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    When given a choice, most people will choose.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Barry View Post
    I think that I just threw up a little in my mouth.
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    Ditto!

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    Hot Topic’s stuff looks rather tame compared to these eye sores.

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    One day someone really must explain to me what the "fashion" people are trying to achieve with the runway shows. Anorexic models with crack-adict eyes and street urchin clothes. Apparently they make their living in the train wreck or freak show business.

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    Lucky for us, Most runway concepts don't make it to the store front. They are just fashion exercises. However Marc Jacob's kilt wasn't a concept and the man just love wearing the kilt. He also stated that he has no intention to produce a line of kilt in the future.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chasem View Post
    Don't think you have to worry about that... as these "kilts" look nothing like true kilts.
    They don't look like "true kilts" since they are NOT "true kilts" but skirts intended, one way or another, to be worn by men--- by design or by the intent of placing the said garment on a man. But are those "kilts" from the Pacific Northwest any more kilts than these skirts? Highland dress they are all not.. but then most clothing worn by most people in Scotland is not Highland dress either...
    In all fairness, however, we need recall that most shorter skirts (including all knee length) that are widely considered the standard of womenswear are--- less so than their pants (which can be traced to woman's trousers as seen in portraits from the Sui and Tang dynasties where we see also Hufu style and military influences)--- firmly based upon men's garments. Skirts (most with a direct heritage to the kilt), tights (a men's garment until new production methods allowed the developed of cheap nylon "panty hose" in the late 1950s and then throwing back into pattern paired by Mary Quant with mini-skirts in the mid 1960s), pumps (based upon court shoes), high heels (quite fashionable for both men and women in the 17th century and the source of the phrase "well heeled").. for that matter wigs (worn by court judges in the UK for the past 300 years) and even make-up were a man's domain throughout most of history--- albeit, at different times, shared with women.
    Do these outfits look good? I don't care for Marc Jacob's style.. in shorts or skirts, sandals or high heels..
    Are these styles for the mainstream... As has often been pointed out over the past 40 years of trying to bring short skirts (back then the Dorcus He-Skirt), as the logical next step after getting acceptance of "Bermuda shorts" to men... one needs the right legs... (same can be said of women).. Not quite the formula for an increasingly sedate and obese "mainstream"..
    Yet another failed marketing blitz even after the well received "Men in Skirts" show? Or is it different this time? Times are, I think, changing.. If sales of male cosmetics, tights for men, non-facial hair removal trends and the number of pictures showing up in the popular fan and movie magazines are a gauge.. then.. perhaps.. perhaps.. perhaps...

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    Didn't the title say something about kilts? I must have missed those pictures.

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    I won't insult kilts by calling those fashion disasters by such a dignified and honoured nomenclature.
    [B][COLOR="Red"][SIZE="1"]Reverend Earl Trefor the Sublunary of Kesslington under Ox, Venerable Lord Trefor the Unhyphenated of Much Bottom, Sir Trefor the Corpulent of Leighton in the Bucket, Viscount Mcclef the Portable of Kirkby Overblow.

    Cymru, Yr Alban, Iwerddon, Cernyw, Ynys Manau a Lydaw am byth! Yng Nghiltiau Ynghyd!
    (Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Isle of Man and Brittany forever - united in the Kilts!)[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B]

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    This forum has a subsection called Traditional Kilts and another called Contemporary and Non-traditional Kilts.
    Apparently to some they should be renamed True Kilts and False Kilts.

    For anyone waiting for fashion shows to reflect the tastes and styles of men of a certain age – can I use your stuff while you wait?
    It’s going to be a while.

    If that extreme and anorexic and ragamuffin look were to go to mass market, retailers would insist that it be be toned-down. Or toned-up. (It’s such a mess that I’m not sure which.) And if they were to at least place the pleats in the back only, and place the length at the knees, then we might at least have something upon which to build.
    [FONT="Georgia"][B][I]-- Larry B.[/I][/B][/FONT]

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