Garment Names For Dummies

[corbinj]

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!

[Nighthawk]

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]

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

[Kiltman]

I don't generally bother about what a kilt is called. What's that old children's rhyme? "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never harm me." In this case, it's true, whatever one calls a kilt it won't change my reasons for wearing one, I sure find a compliment from a woman about how good I look or that other men should wear kilts too is enough to keep this old lad happy.

[Bugbear]

"Cognitive dissonance:" the story of my life.

Things have changed a bit from when I was growing up though...

[Highlander31]

My response to the skirt comment is dependent on the demeanor of the person making the comment.