Quote Originally Posted by CDNSushi View Post
I don't think that modern, Western society has yet been able to work out exactly what makes someone masculine or feminine, hence the odd reactions to something that we (us kilt-wearers) see as being absolutely the most masculine thing you can wear.
Accessories are one solution. Wearing a historically accurate and highly functional fighting dirk with a 12- to 14-inch blade with the kilt tends to remove any doubts, while if necessary giving you the option of removing any doubters.

Yes, of course I'm being facetious here. We wouldn't ever want to have anyone mistake kilt-wearers for warriors.

And truly, having brought such a dirk into Japan myself many years ago before realizing the, um, legal potential and having to sneak it out again* I can certainly sympathize with the many who are restricted to the kilt alone.



(* Regarding sneaking it out, if the gummint didn't want me to be able to do such things they shouldn't have trained me as an intelligence officer or allowed me to train all those years in Japan with the last ninja grandmaster.)