Kilts for chicks, I'm confused...

[zjrog]

Shotgun? Nah, when boys came to date my daughter, I was sharpening hunting knives. On a very long stone. With a slow even stroke. All the better to get their attention. A knife is more personal and visceral... None were ever late getting my daughter home. Now she is 21 and I am forbidden from such activity...

[Rob, ClanMacMillan, NM]

Shotgun? Nah, when boys came to date my daughter, I was sharpening hunting knives. On a very long stone. With a slow even stroke. All the better to get their attention. A knife is more personal and visceral... None were ever late getting my daughter home. Now she is 21 and I am forbidden from such activity...

I used the knife sharpening method on a few of my daughter's boyfriends. Then one showed up carrying more sharpened implements than I owned (at the time) .

They're married now

With two daughters

[zjrog]

I used the knife sharpening method on a few of my daughter's boyfriends. Then one showed up carrying more sharpened implements than I owned (at the time) .

They're married now

With two daughters

Well, he ought to know what to do when they start dating then!

[O'Callaghan]

The chart is pretty good. I particularly approve of the way half of them are mini length! However, just to split hairs in the true tradition of this board, a kilted skirt is traditionally longer than a man's kilt, although not as long as a hostess kilt. Most vendors just call it a ladies' kilt if it is the same length as a man's kilt. However, many of the old stick-in-the-muds on the board refuse to call anything a ladies' kilt, which is probably the cause of the confusion, LOL!

Historically, men wore kilts of various lengths as well, but you will be told here that only knee length is traditional. This is true, but only in the sense that 'traditional' is really code for Victorian! The victorians in their turn copied the highland regiments, who wore (and still wear) their kilts at mid knee. This is because if half the regiment wore different length hems it wouldn't be a uniform.

Why this should be relevant to guys who aren't in the army or in a uniformed pipe band is mysterious, although it is true that the average male (including yours truly) would have difficulty either sitting in a mini without exposing themselves or walking in anything floor length without falling on their nose!

[Pyper]

I've definitely seen many tartan skirts that are much shorter than your pic of the "hostess skirt."

Unfortunately, I frequently see them on guys, who don't seem to "get" that a kilt should end at the knee, and not extend half way down the calf.

[Pleater]

I have been trying to remember where I read about little old Scottish ladies wearing long kilts - some recollection of seeing them on busses .

My memory is getting very bad these days.

With the width of wool tartan being 54 inches I suspect that a woman's kilt would be 27 inches long as it meant not wasting any material. The waistband would either be a toning ribbon or a strip cut off selvage to selvage.

Women simply did not expose their legs - respectable ones, that is, but neither did they wish to appear to be frivolous and wasteful, so a length of 27 inches would be a good compromise.

I tend to identify a woman's kilt by the quality and quantity of the materials used to make it - something with minute pleats formed with no regard to the pattern, that would be a skirt, but deep neat pleats and a quality fabric just has to be a kilt, no matter who is wearing it.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[GoodGirlGonePlaid]

@ Anne the pleater- I like what you said differentiating between a skirt and a kilt: the quality.

I'm loving all the dad responses regarding shotguns and other weaponry! I too have a daughter, and a very tall and intimidating husband w/ a shotgun collection. So those teen years may just be OK.

Lol'ing @ the "you can't reduce to a few pics what must take pages of arguments and hair splitting." Classic!!!

[FatherWilliam57]

I'm loving all the dad responses regarding shotguns and other weaponry! I too have a daughter, and a very tall and intimidating husband w/ a shotgun collection. So those teen years may just be OK.

I have already warned my soon-to-be 14 year old daughter that the first boy to wheel into my driveway and lay on the car horn had better be delivering a pizza. I am so not ready for this...

[Ian.MacAllan]

. . .
Historically, men wore kilts of various lengths as well, . . .

There are on the WWW several illustrations from the 17th & 18th centuries which seem to me to imply that one of the features of the great kilt was the ease with which its length could be adjusted to accommodate different tastes and weather conditions.

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[Geoff Withnell]

I have already warned my soon-to-be 14 year old daughter that the first boy to wheel into my driveway and lay on the car horn had better be delivering a pizza. I am so not ready for this...

We had an incident of a boy on a first date blowing his horn to to pick up my daugther Shoshana. Shoshana was upstairs, and called down to me "Daddy would you please take care of that?" i went out and sent the young fella on his way. Shoshana came down and told me "If he's not man enough to come in and face you, he's not man enough to date me!" Am I proud of my daughter? Just a bit!