Are you offended when its called a skirt? Cos I am!

[Uncle Ricky]

I can still remember my grade 6 music teacher explaining to the class that "All music is sound, but not all sound is music" (Something my teenage daughter still doesn't understand - but that's another subject)
I hate to have to break this to you boys - "All kilts are skirts, but not all skirts are kilts.
Having said that, I cling ardently to the the fact that "IT'S A KILT" I wouldn't be caught dead in a skirt!

[GMan]

I really don't let it bother me, because I just consider the source.

[Andrew Breecher]

Says one of my co-workers, "Man, you get more **** in that skirt than I could ever get!" Whatever he calls it, the girls in the bar flirt with me and ask to have their pictures taken with me. ;)

As has been stated, most people who call it a skirt just don't know what a kilt is. But I wear my Utilikilt at work exclusively (unless I'm off-hours, in which case I wear a tartan) and most people who comment on it call it a kilt, and they're all compliments. Several times I've run into Scottish gentlemen and they're very happy to see someone in a kilt. Other than that, Boston is an extremely Irish town, and the predominant comment is, "I love your kilt - you must be Irish." The red beard probably helps....

Andrew.

[Aaron]

I couldn't care less what anyone calls it. It is what it is regardless.

[Casey]

I have only had one "skirt" comment in the year I have been wearing a kilt. I must admit, to date, I have only worn tartans. I will have to see what happens when I wear my saffron kilt:

http://bearkilts.com/irishkilts.html

[Jimmy Carbomb]

It doesn't bother me when I am wearing my Utilikilt. It seems most people think they are just skirts.

But when I am in my tartan, you better call it a kilt.

Right on!

The only thing that I'll add is that if you're wearing sandals and a tank top with it... expect it to be called a skirt. It you're wearing a sporran, kilt hose and a nice shirt... the skirt comment is VERY rare.

That's from constant observance and experience.

[Kiltedmusiclover]

If any of you have watched the Discovery
channel over the years, you might remember the show Travelers.
One of their shows was about the
Grandfather Mt. Highland games.
They interviewed
Harvey Rich the owner of everything Scottish.

http://www.everythingscottish.com/

In that interview, he addresed several questions
and statements he often hears.
Such as “What is worn under your kilt??
Nothing, everything is in perfect working order.”
The One that comes to mind here is
when a guy would ask
"Why are you wearing
a skirt!"
He always shot back
"It's not a skirt, it's a kilt and wearing one will
greatly improve your social life."

[Big Paul]

I have caught that show a couple of times.

I really like the:"It's not a skirt, it's a kilt and wearing one will greatly improve your social life."

[Magnus Sporrano]

Why do these things always happen when I go to a concert? I was at the Rammstein concert in Manchester last night (oldest there by a millenium or two) and just as I was about to leave the concourse to enter the arena itself a mate I was with pointed out that a group of girls had taken a phonephoto of the bloke in the leather skirt. Sheesh. Kids eh?

Well it is a skirt.

That's like if someone pointed at my VW Jetta and said "nice car". Well, yes, it is a car. But more precisely, it is a Jetta.

Same thing. It's a skirt, but more precisely it is a kilt.

The only time I take offense is when it is meant in a malicious way.

[Jewddha]

One of my lady friends never ceases to pick on the technicality that it IS a skirt, but it's all in jest, so it didn't discourage em form ordering (though the wait might kill me yet).