Women in Kilts

[Aaron]

Jimmy said:

Janet Reno in a kilt is just NOT a good compromise.

Hmm, Janet Reno... I don't care how you cut it, that's too much neck skin for just one woman.

[Riverkilt]

Hello, was hoping for a post from some of the lassies on the board....???

For me its real simple. If its mostly women that are creating our kilts, they certainly have the right to wear them.

Yes, I know, some guys sew kilts too.

And the lassies do look soooooo hot in a kilt

Ron

[Jimmy Carbomb]

Hello, was hoping for a post from some of the lassies on the board....???

Sort of speaks loads to their ability to avoid conflict better.

I'm sure they would be MORE than happy to address the actual "women in kilts" issue, but I don't think the "tangents" are going to be touched. I just can't (for the life of me) equate women in kilts with women in men's sports or organizations.

I won't say that women don't belong in kilts... but I DO prefer women out of kilts.

[Riverkilt]

Wonder what Freud would say....?

I was born in an Army hospital (Craig Field, Alabama) and the day after I experienced my first, and hopefully last, amputation when my "natural kilt" was removed from you know what.

Perhaps "kilt addiction" is rooted in a craving to replace lost foreskins and that's why its more of a guy thing....?

Ron

[Magnus Sporrano]

No matter what we men wear, women want to wear it, too. Nothing can be done about it. They will always have more fashion freedom than us.

You want to be different? Wear it like a man.

[mcnice]

i totally agrre with jimmy. could not explain better.

on the one hand from the postings here i see the trend keeping the kilt as a men´s garment in order to preserve something of true "manliness".

i m not proud about what manliness meant the last centuries. for my part am thinking that we should treat women in another way as we did the last 2000 years. for that reason the kilt for me personaly is also a way for breaking with conservative and traditional understandings of manliness. i m not orienting my vision of manhood anymore on trouser-wearing guys.
i think not only women needed their freedom movement (emancipation) but in fact also men would need one.
what sense does it make if only the women are questioning the past, but not the other relevant half?

to be honest, just spoken from the comfort aspect:
there is nothing more comfortable than a kilt. and that does not depend on gender. even trousers are much more comfortable for lassies than for us.
so i don t understand the discussion that the girls took everything from us?
it s just a question of comfort and btw freedom. cause horsing or working in long lassie skirts isn´t as practical as doing that stuff in shorter garments...
i beleive social construction, hierarchy and the way we shall feel and behave in society is strongly relied to clothing.
what other reason could there be, when women were terrorised when they started wearing trousers?

[lynnie]

Do men think women should go back to wearing cumbersome long dresses and whalebone undergarments?

Life has changed, women have the vote and shocking though it might be, women wear pants even! And kilts! Get over it, enjoy the view.

As a dancer when young I wore kilt, jacket, tam with feathers, sporran, argyles and plaid in competition. Looked good too!

At 61 I still wear a kilt. I teach dance and play tenor drum in pipeband for past 25 years.

Here's tae us!

[Jerry]

Oops.

[Jock Scot]

I am sorry ladies, but to my eyes the kilt does not look right on you. I know that the kilt is worn by ladies in a pipe band for the sake of conformity and I understand that, but it still does not make you look right wearing the kilt. Tartan dresses,mini skirts,midi skirts,maxi skirts, trousers even and, dare I say it, a birthday suit too, you look just fine to me, but in the kilt no way. Jock now dives for cover!

[GreenDragon]

if you see a woman in a kilt can you ask HER "the Question"?