Women in Kilts

[Alan H]

I guess it comes down to this, and I know I'm preaching to the choir here.

Do we want kilts to continue to be articles of clothing that men can wear?

Yes.

Well then, go WEAR ONE.

[kiltie as charged]

Here is my two cents worth.

This is how I see it, I am a hairy chested ape! It is bad enough that mens clothing is becoming feminized.Heck women are even wearing our underpants! I once asked my daughter when she was a teenager
why she started wearing boxers, she said that it was more comfortable.

My wife even wears men pants for the asme reason! But when I mention that I want to wear my kilt for the reasons that she uses It is a NO, The reason,"It is not a special occasion!" Sure she "lets" me wear my kilt
as long as she is not with me or we are out with our friends,But then it is a controlled situation.

I told my wife after I had surgery for my brain anyurism. That I want to wear my kilts more often. I don't care what anyone says about what I'm
wearing.Most of the negitive comments are usually from a bunch of pinheaded rednecks that are trying to show off in front of their idiot friends.

Sorry I got carried away,but as far as I'm concerned women should stay out of mens clothes.They have their own they don't need ours too.

[Rob Wright]

I personally don't have a problem with women wearing kilts(ducks behind a log ) but I must add ,one of the reasons I started to look into purchasing a kilt was in part due to a female friend who on occassion wears a men's kilt(plus she looks bloody hot in it ).

There have been several good points made in this thread but no matter how you slice it, a kilt ais a skirtlike garment and the general public doesn't want to be bothered with the details about the differences between a kilt and a womans kilted skirt.

Rob

[MACKAY]

its how you define a "kilt" basically must peoples (the man in the street) perception of a "kilt" is a garment with a pattern "Tartan" pleated at the rear and worn by scotsman. As we know a "great kilt" strictly speakning does not have pleats sewn into it, buts its obviously a "kilt", so the word "kilted" must mean "wearing a kilt" so "kilted skirt" means a skirt thats wearing a kilt ! so I suppose a "Kilt" is a mans garment that wraps around the waist, and a when worn by a lady it ceases to be a "kilt" and becomes a "tartan skirt", the ladies lacrosse teams dont wear "kilts" they wear "pleated skirts" - a lassie shouldnt wear a "kilt" except when pipeing or Highland dancing as part of a uniform . to do so would be like a man wearing a skirt!!
am I makeing sense?

Who's on first?

Brian Mackay

[Jimmy Carbomb]

Does my soon-to-be wife wear a kilt? Yup.
Do I REALLY like it? Yup.
Do I see it as an afront to the kilted men movement? Nope.
Do all the wives of the band wear them? Yup.
Do they look hot in them? Yup.
Does anyone else in the band have a problem with it? Nope.

I don't see enough women wearing real kilts for this to be an issue. I see a LOAD of those short little things in tartan material... but that's not quite the same thing now is it? You won't see too many guys in those (excapt on another website).

I really don't see a problem here. It hasn't gotten to a point where there's any confusion as to where the kilts belong. It hasn't gotten to a point where there's any confusion as to where the skirts belong. Even with the cross-over... the rightful lines are defined.

I, personally, would rather see a woman in a kilt than a MacDonald in a Campbell tartan.

Think about that perspective for "kilts".

[beerbecue]

I promise I will never wear Campbell......

[Galant]

What would be traditional wear for women?

Personally I do like the look fo long skirts.

In fact - yay for Braveheart women, especially young ones, who have the guts to wear such outrageous clothing as long skirts - or anything that might be modest, feminine, or that means they aren't wearing their sexuality on the sleeve.

[Jimmy Carbomb]

What would be traditional wear for women?

Personally I do like the look of long skirts.

Pffffft if I know! There's so much history on the (relatively) well-documented kilts for men... and there's a LOAD of debate on what is "traditional wear" for us!

I absolutely LOVE the look of a deep-pleated, mid-calf length, properly tapered, 2 or 3 buckle tartan kilted skirt. Kelly at USAKilts had one on at the Mid-Winter Festival that was awesome. Add on a mini-sporran on the hip, and it's just beautiful. (A mini-sporran looks just like a regular sporran, but is only big enough to hold smokes, keys, billfold).

I'm, truly, not a fan of the mini-tartan skirts. That's probably because I've seen too many "Michelin-women" wearing them.

[beerbecue]

Add on a mini-sporran on the hip, and it's just beautiful. (A mini-sporran looks just like a regular sporran, but is only big enough to hold smokes, keys, billfold).

May I assume one could substitute a child's (boy's) sporran for a 'mini'?

[Jimmy Carbomb]

May I assume one could substitute a child's (boy's) sporran for a 'mini'?

Those are even bigger than the ones that I'm talking about... but I suppose that it's close enough for rock 'n' roll. You get the idea anyway.