'It's a Dress!'

[bubba]

In fashion a dress is a top and skirt in one piece, a skirt is just the lower part as an independent garment.

[morrison]

Papa said, "It's a fool who doesn't listen to his mother."
Mama said, "You'druther be ignorant than a fool."

If Mom says, "It's a dress," I aint gonna argue 'bout it.

It's a kilt.
Hey, what's the derivative or root language for the term kilt?
My Websters New World Dictionary 1966 ed. p413 says:
kilt (kilt), v.t. {ME. kilte; prob. < ON.}, 1. {Scot.}, to tuck or fasten (up). 2. to pleat. n. a short, pleated skirt reaching to the knees, worn by men of the Scottish Highlands.

I can only speak for myself. I aint Scot. I aint nowhere near the United Kingdom. I wear my kilt when, where, at the length, and in the colors I choose. I adhere to the general mores of my society, and embrace loosely the values and traditions of my country's culture. The laws are made to be obeyed, and when appropriate, to be tested. It is always appropriate to question authority. That's one of my freedoms.
And Mama said, "Son, you're a free man."
Papa muttered, "In a kilt!"

[pbpersson]

I can only speak for myself. I aint Scot. I aint nowhere near the United Kingdom. I wear my kilt when, where, at the length, and in the colors I choose. I adhere to the general mores of my society, and embrace loosely the values and traditions of my country's culture. The laws are made to be obeyed, and when appropriate, to be tested. It is always appropriate to question authority. That's one of my freedoms.

I'm with you 100%! This entire kilt thing.....I just don't know. I've only had mine for two weeks. I thought based upon how I was brought up that if I ventured outside in a kilt without a tartan that everyone would think it was a skirt and I would be arrested or something.

A few days after I got the kilt and was very nervously wearing it in public I was walking out of a pet store with cat food while an officer was walking in. He didn't bat an eyelash. So....there is another silly myth down the drain.

[Tim Walker]

In fashion a dress is a top and skirt in one piece, a skirt is just the lower part as an independent garment.

A woman does not have to be from Poland to be confused. What I don't understand is the woman who speaks English as her native tongue-yet compares a kilt to a dress.

[Jimmy the Celt]

The very construction of the kilt is different than a skirt. skirts do not wrap around the waist; they are cylindrical, and are put on in a manner similar to that of trousers, and must be pulled up and buttoned/zipped. The kilt, however, is more or less a continuous piece of fabric that wraps around the waist. You don't put your legs into the kilt to don the garment, as you would trousers, or a skirt. Instead, it wraps around, no need to even lift a foot.

Now, why would anyone call a kilt a skirt? Fighting words indeed. But I'm too nice of a guy to get into a fight over it. Usually.

[Blu (Ontario)]

.... Now, why would anyone call a kilt a skirt? Fighting words indeed. But I'm too nice of a guy to get into a fight over it. Usually.

My guess is that your average Joe Lunchbucket cares little about the details of why a kilt is different from a skirt.

[bubba]

The very construction of the kilt is different than a skirt. skirts do not wrap around the waist; they are cylindrical, and are put on in a manner similar to that of trousers, and must be pulled up and buttoned/zipped. .

Not neccesarily so. Wrap skirts are an exception to that, as they wrap in a similar manner as a kilt. They usually button at the waist and some use velcro these days.

[pbpersson]

skirts do not wrap around the waist; they are cylindrical, and are put on in a manner similar to that of trousers, and must be pulled up and buttoned/zipped. The kilt, however, is more or less a continuous piece of fabric that wraps around the waist. You don't put your legs into the kilt to don the garment, as you would trousers, or a skirt. Instead, it wraps around, no need to even lift a foot.
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Oh....I'm sorry....when I get my Utilikilts out of the washer I snap them together and pull them on when I'm going to wear them. When I take them off, I unsnap all the top snaps, pull them off, and then hang them in the closet pleats down.

Totally unsnapping the thing so it's this long piece of cloth seems way too complicated.