Women in kilts

[The Wizard of BC]

THE OFFICIAL RULES AND LAWS REGARDING THE WEARING OF THE TARTAN.

Heed these laws or suffer the interest of the Tartan cops.

1) Pick a Tartan you like!

2) Know which Tartan you are wearing!

3) Wear it with Pride!


Submitted by 2nd Deputy Chief Constable C.S. Ashton Badge no. 115435466078329092129243865
Victoria Office - Department of Highland Security

[Barb T]

THE OFFICIAL RULES AND LAWS REGARDING THE WEARING OF THE TARTAN.

Heed these laws or suffer the interest of the Tartan cops.

1) Pick a Tartan you like!

2) Know which Tartan you are wearing!

3) Wear it with Pride!


Submitted by 2nd Deputy Chief Constable C.S. Ashton Badge no. 115435466078329092129243865
Victoria Office - Department of Highland Security

We do love our resident wizard - never one for understatement....!

[Pleater]

Because a kilt is my everyday wear, I sometimes put on the small handbag I wore back in the early 70's, when I dressed hippy - and which I wore around my waist, on my left side, being mostly left handed.

I have always had backpacks, even before they were fashion items, and so a shoulder bag would have meant too many straps, having to take one thing off before the other could be removed and so on.

Not putting down a money containing item whilst filling the machine at my local launderette was really sensible for an impoverished student - or anyone else for that matter.

I think that I really have a problem in understanding the 'dressing as male/female' concept. Maybe a costume making and theatricals has that effect.

Having - for instance - four people painting the scenery all in identically bespattered overalls and caps, do I go over and check how many are male and how many female, and bring the ladies their tea in delicate china and the gents in burly mugs? I don't think so.

Perhaps to some it is really important that life is lived with every moment being differentiated by the correct image and every choice of clothing, speach, behaviour is within that strict concept.

I find life exhausting enough as it is, to be trying to live according to such rules would be just too much to cope with.

Anne the pleater

[DWFII]

I think that I really have a problem in understanding the 'dressing as male/female' concept. [snip]
Perhaps to some it is really important that life is lived with every moment being differentiated by the correct image and every choice of clothing, speach, behaviour is within that strict concept.

It's as natural as any other survival mechanism...every day we have to make choices that discriminate between a happy outcome and a not-so-happy outcome; every day we are called upon to exercise a most basic, primitive, and fundamentally critical judgment that can, and often does, determine our fate; everyday we must decide in one fashion or another...literally or metaphorically...whether what we are seeing is lion or lamb. Combined with experience, such survival mechanisms keep us from attempting to cross a raging river; from picking up a deadly snake; from getting too close to a fire.

As society evolves these survival mechanisms do not disappear, they are simply subsumed into different situations. They become the building blocks of good taste and civilized sensibilities. Combined with experience they set up the hierarchies of "good, better, best." Of the crabapple to the Braeburn; of Mogan David to Chateau Lafite Rothschild; of salt to sweet; of dirty to clean; of sick to healthy; of life-threateningly cold to searingly hot; of pleasure to pain; of serene to manic; of friendly to hostile...and that includes sexually.

All these dichotomies present us with critical choices on a daily...hourly...basis.

The very people who so vociferously advocate for a 256 colour grey scale of choices would be the first to scream bloody murder if such an indeterminate world resulted in a a "mistaken identity" in a courting/dating situation.

[O'Callaghan]

I think that I really have a problem in understanding the 'dressing as male/female' concept. Maybe a costume making and theatricals has that effect.

Having - for instance - four people painting the scenery all in identically bespattered overalls and caps, do I go over and check how many are male and how many female, and bring the ladies their tea in delicate china and the gents in burly mugs? I don't think so.

Perhaps to some it is really important that life is lived with every moment being differentiated by the correct image and every choice of clothing, speach, behaviour is within that strict concept.

I find life exhausting enough as it is, to be trying to live according to such rules would be just too much to cope with.

Anne the pleater

Welcome to our world!

Women can get away with wearing anything, but men are supposed to stay within narrow limits. I have no idea why. It's not as if it is so hard to tell the genders apart, no matter what we wear.

To the limited extent that society lets men get away with something other than trousers we are beset with yet more rules.

For example, in window shopping online for a kilt for my wife, I found that the various vendors sell what they refer to as billie kilts (mini length), ladies' kilts (knee length), kilted skirts (calf length) and hostess kilts (full length), and yet their men's kilts are all knee length, and there are often precise instructions as to how to get the 'right' length. BTW, those who maintain that there's no such thing as a ladies' kilt haven't looked around much.

The only explanation seems to come from the uniform regulations of the highland regiments. Newflash! I've never been in anybody's army, and my celtic ancestry is not even Scottish, but Irish! So why should I care?

I suppose we are our own worst enemies. I admit to a sense of horror at the thought of wearing anything that would be labelled as female clothing, and yet it seems that women are eager to don anything from the men's department. Does this come from some deep conditioning in both genders that men are superior and women inferior? If so, this makes no sense in the 21st century, not that it ever did.

[macwilkin]

The only explanation seems to come from the uniform regulations of the highland regiments. Newflash! I've never been in anybody's army, and my celtic ancestry is not even Scottish, but Irish! So why should I care?

Because of the fact that many credit the Highland regiments of the British Army for saving Highland attire after the Act of Proscription.

That is why you should care. It's a matter of simple respect.

Todd

[Jock Scot]

Because of the fact that many credit the Highland regiments of the British Army for saving Highland attire after the Act of Proscription.

That is why you should care. It's a matter of simple respect.

Todd

Thank you for saying that-------I was not going to be so tactful!