Quote Originally Posted by highlander_Daz
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?
Yes, you're making perfect sense. The answer is that the kilt/skirt debate is all just semantics. It's words that we're concerned with. Others may disagree with my viewpoint of course, but honestly it seems to me that there's just not that much difference between a kilt and a skirt, and to 99 percent of the world casual observers, there's esentially NO difference.

That's just reality. So live with it. When I put one on, I call it a kilt. someone else might call it something else.


cheers...Alan