Ladies- do you wear "male" kilts or kilts made specially for women?

[Tarheel]

I'm sure that our Lady Angie will enter to post something as soon as she sees this thread. She wears a number of different kilts and will offer the best advice. The other ladies that choose female kilts over the men's will also offer their reasons. I believe it will be your choice in the end but this is an honest query and I hope you get satisfactory answers.

[Lady Grey]

Both
I make mens styles to fit my shape. (Box pleats & RevK)
What side the kilt closes on depends entirely on how awake I am when I'm marking up.
I don't have the funds to buy a traditional kilt from a well known manufactor but if I did I would make it work! And rock it!
That's the beauty of a kilt, it can adjust to fit many shape, even a basic off the rack kilt.
I bought a cheap mini kilt from a UK supplier, yeah it's shaped for a woman but I wouldn't call it a kilt, it's a tartan wrap around skirt, ain't no swish in it!

[Lady Grey]

Oh and as for not mini & 'not to feminine' leggings & Doc Martens are your friend! Well mine anyway

[plaid preacher]

I think perhaps the other thing to add is that while to kilt is traditionally a male garment, it is also mostly a bespoke garment. Therefore, most 8-yard 16oz kilts are made not just for "a man" but each is made for "a specific man". Likewise, a handmade kilt made for you will be uniquely "your" garment; probably with a higher rise to reflect the higher natural waist of a woman, and a more generous apron curve. I have a length of fabric at home that I am intending to sew up for my youngest daughter into a box-pleated kilt ... all I have to do is get the 8 yards of fabric that is my next kilt off the table first!

Around these parts the right vs left closure doesn't seem to receive much support. On this forum a kilt is a kilt is a kilt.

I think if anything, for the ladies here, they are freed from some of the rigid strictures and debate around THCD; and can make and wear a kilt that they like and like to wear.


My thoughts anyway.

[Angela Kaye Bodine]

I'm sure that our Lady Angie will enter to post something as soon as she sees this thread. She wears a number of different kilts and will offer the best advice. The other ladies that choose female kilts over the men's will also offer their reasons. I believe it will be your choice in the end but this is an honest query and I hope you get satisfactory answers.

Thank you Tarheel :-) I will do my best..Angie..My McGregor Hunting Modern came in a couple weeks ago.. Mike will help me ( another good egg)