Who does and doesn't call it a skirt.

[whiterav]

On Memorial Day, I was at the Artsfest in Harrisburg. It was very crowded. A little girl about six years old looked at me then turned and asked her mother "why is that man wearing a skirt?" Her mother quickly responded "that's not a skirt, it's a kilt. Men from Scotland wear them." I'm not from Scotland, but the mother did me, and all of us good!

[emolas]

I recently got complimented on my "skirt" by a man wearing a dress of all things. It took me aback for a second because my first thought was "hey, he's wearing a kilt too!". Then I realized it was a short summer dress. I thanked him for the compliment and told him it was a kilt and that his dress looked nice too. Nothing wrong with common courtesy and politeness.

Most skirt comments I get are unintentional except for my ex girlfriend who refuses to call it anything other than a dress or skirt (hence the ex part).

[Mipi]

Honestly speaking, I don't care how they call it.

As long as someone is not rude, I don't mind.

[Andrewson]

Honestly speaking, I don't care how they call it.

As long as someone is not rude, I don't mind.

Agree.

A kilt is a skirt like a Ferrari F1 is a car.

[Phil]

The only time was when a group of us were kilted at a wedding in England. The photographer called for "all the men in skirts" to be photographed beside the bride. Luckily he said "just a joke" before his tripod disappeared up where the sun don't shine!

[Streetcar]

The last time I got the “skirt” comment was in the grocery store. I overheard a 6-year-old girl ask her mother, “Why is he wearing a skirt?” I leaned down to her and said, “It sure does look like one, doesn’t it? But when a man wears something like this, we call it a kilt.” She nodded and smiled.

However, there’s a female friend of ours who still pointedly calls it a skirt. The interesting thing is that once she gets a couple drink in her, she gets downright flirty with me when I’m kilted.

[Kid Cossack]

The more I wear a kilt, the less what other people think bothers me.

I've had people call my kilt a skirt--doesn't bother me. Sometimes I'll say, "why yes, a particular type of skirt, for men, called a kilt."

Sometimes I'll say, "Yes, in my gang colors---the USMC."

I know I'm not cross-dressing, I know I'm not gay, I know I'm not "just being an exhibitionist." (Cue Seinfeld and "not that there's anything wrong with that.")

If someone says it out of ignorance, I'll explain to them. Generally this is positively received. If someone says it to get my goat---well, I don't have a goat.

Everyone has their own burdens to bear in life; I choose my burdens. If someone has a problem with me wearing a kilt, that's THEIR burden, not mine. I try and project "good vibes, man" and haven't been in a fight in, gosh, probably twenty five years (or more).

Man, I'm just like Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse, only without the "being a bouncer" part.

[johnnym]

Last fall at a Scottish festival, I displayed my vintage MG at their British car show. I wore my American Heritage USAK. Another local car club which I belong to was there to visit, not participating. At the next meeting, one member asked if I had worn a dress to the festival. I answered "Hell, no". I got no further comment from him.

[Pleater]

S'funny really - me being of the female persuasion - but no one calls my kilts skirts, well - just once, but it was pretty dark and the kilt is black, and they said it was a nice shape.

But then, I did used to be a bouncer.

Not a very good one though.

I never once got anyone to bounce.

[Marcel]

Mostly just my friends call it a skirt, as a joke, it doesn't bother me. My wife also calls it a skirt sometimes but it usually goes like this "it takes a REAL man to look sexy in a skirt!"