A Petticoat!!??

[Mr. MacDougall]

The times they are a changin'

The language, too.

[starbkjrus]

I don't know. I always wanted to go there.

Yup. Me too.

[Fearnest]

I don't know. I always wanted to go there.

I'll admit it - me too...

[corbinj]

Davedove, I did go there, and the girls were all real nice...the dog though was a real foul b. just kidding.. did you all notice that a kilt, is a kilt, in all the scandi languages except icelandic? neat.

[Pleater]

I am just reading Pepys diaries, and during the early 1660s the men wore petticoat britches, which were - as far as I can work out, two knee length straight tubes joined together with a U shape for the body to fit into. I'm not sure what happened at the top - gathered onto a band or with a casing and tape maybe. How they untrussed is a bit of a mystery.

An aquaintance of Pepys tells him how he had accidentally put both legs into the same half of his britches when dressing and never noticed all day.

There is a portrait of the King in petticoat britches, loads of lace and silk.

For the 27th July 1665 - (by which time the fashion is for closed knee britches), he writes

But it was pretty to see the young pretty ladies dressed like men; in velvet coats, caps with ribbands and with laced (neck)bands just like men.

Hmmmm

[trojanrabbit]

Russian: шотландская юбка

шотландская юбка simply translate as scottish skirt %)
we usually use word килт

[MacWage]

kilt [kilt] noun
an item of Scottish national dress, a pleated tartan skirt reaching to the knees and traditionally worn by men
Arabic: ??????????: ???????? ????????? ???????? ????????????
Chinese (Simplified): ????????
Chinese (Traditional): ????????
Czech: skotská sukn?, kilt
Danish: kilt
Dutch: Schotse rok
Estonian: ðoti seelik
Finnish: kiltti
French: kilt
German: der Kilt
Greek: ???? (?????????? ??????)
Hungarian: skót szoknya
Icelandic: skotapils
Indonesian: pakaian adat Skot
Italian: kilt, (gonnellino scozzese)

Japanese: ???
Korean: ??
Latvian: (skota tautast?rpa) sv?rci?i
Lithuanian: kiltas, škot? sijon?lis
Norwegian: kilt, skotteskjørt
Polish: spódniczka szkocka
Portuguese (Brazil): kilt, saiote escocês
Portuguese (Portugal): saiote escocês
Romanian: kilt
Russian: ??????????? ????
Slovak: kilt
Slovenian: kilt
Spanish: falda escocesa
Swedish: kilt
Turkish: ?skoç etekli?i

In the ones I can figure out (with my limited linguistic skills) or have "read" for me, they EITHER are "kilt," "Scottish Skirt," or BOTH (ecosse, and it derivatives- is a term for Scots in some languages, incl. French)