Cross-Dressing????

[Chef]

I've heard someone call it "cross dressing with an excuse" and I must say that the fact that it was made for men and has been worn by men for centuries is one hell of an excuse.

Now that sounds like something my mother in law would say if she got the chance but seriously I think there will probably always be a few who think wearing the kilt is an excuse for a man to wear a skirt...therefore it is cross dressing.

Interesting how we don't consider a woman to be cross dressing if she was to wear men's clothing. Now just thinking, a woman wearing pants that are made for women is not cross dressing but if she was to wear pants made for a man then I think it would be...so if a woman wears a kilt (obviously a garment made for a man) is she cross dressing? I think the whole band uniform bit is different though, because it is a uniform.

No offence to our the ladies here who wear a kilt, I'm just bring up the question.

[Rex_Tremende]

Interesting how we don't consider a woman to be cross dressing if she was to wear men's clothing.

No, we don't. We call her fashionable.

We think it's romantic if the lady dons her date's shirt the morning after. If he dons hers, well, there won't be another date, probably.

R.

[sharpdressedscot]

Isn't that a bit hypocritical?

If a woman wears a man's clothing, it's nothing but fashion. Yet, when a man wear a kilt (even though it was made for men) and people call it a "skirt," they say it's cross-dressing.

[Panache]

Folks,

Anyone who thinks a man wearing a kilt of cross dressing is ignorant.

Anyone who goes out of his way to accuse a kilt wearer of cross dressing is rude.

Anyone who is informed that a kilt is a male garment and doesn't accept it is stupid.

And frankly, they not really worth spending a lot of time worrying about.

Respectfully

Jamie

[crboltz]

While on my honey moon to Santa Barbara, I was wearing my kilt as we walked along the beach (we weren't going to the beach again because by that point we were both lobster red), a teen age girl called out to her friends "Look at the homo dressed like a girl," her male friend (boy friend) responded, "No that's a manskirt, it takes a man to wear one of those, and if you be that hatin' we not gonna be hangin' " While I appreciate his defense, I did wish his diction and word choice was better.

I've found strangely enough I get more of the rude comments (in ernest or in fun) from women in pants, I think I've received only one rude comment from a guy. I wish I could explain this since it seems most people here have had the opposite experience.

I remember last year, at the new years party I went to, I was in my kilt as was my husband to be, and a good friend showed up in his sarong (as had his wife, but that is far less comment worthy). Our host wanted to go change in to his.... Hamaka (?) a Japanese pleated male un-bifricated garment, but his wife said it wasn't clean and therefor he was not allowed. Several others said had they known the guys were going to be in various forms of skirts they would have come attired similarly. Maybe I just run with an odd group of friends.

Chris

[auld argonian]

Sadly, I have a couple of friends who give me this BS and I have to make the distinction between the ones who just do it in an attempt to yank my chain and the ones who sincerely think that I'm "getting way too in touch with my feminine side".

Whaddaya gonna do?

Ignore the chain yankers and just tell the other ones what a kilt is and why you're wearing it...but only once...if they don't get it then, forget about it because they're never going to understand. You don't need a running argument.

Best

AA

[sharpdressedscot]

I say the old way of "not giving a crap" works best. But that's jsut me.

[Chef]

We think it's romantic if the lady dons her date's shirt the morning after. If he dons hers, well, there won't be another date, probably. R.

Isn't that the truth!

[Nighthawk]

In the end it all comes down to ignorance. What separates the excusable misunderstandings from the arrogant ******** is the willingness to be enlightened.

That is actually my definition of the distinction between ignorant and stupid. Ignorant is acceptable- we're all ignorant of something- but stupidity is not.

[Mr. Kilt]

That is actually my definition of the distinction between ignorant and stupid. Ignorant is acceptable- we're all ignorant of something- but stupidity is not.

Ignorance can be "cured", stupid is for life.