Quote Originally Posted by Sir Robert View Post
You have to watch those tweeds though, if not done right the effect is more of a skirt than a kilt. For example in post #12 the top photograph of MAC Newsome from the back looks more like a womans' skirted suit than a man's kilted suit. (sorry MAC)

To avoid that the rest of the outfit must say unambiguously that this is a kilt.

The problem is that women's tweed skirts can be remarkably like a tweed kilt in size, shape, color, material and wear that the distinction between the two is fuzzy at best. That is by design as women's clothiers look to men's suits and men's kilts for inspiration. For example schoolgirl outfits today mimic schoolboy outfits of yesteryear.
Well, that's one man's opinion. I frequently wear tweed kilts for daywear and I have never once had anyone suggest that they look feminine. (Maybe the fact that I'm 6'3" with a full beard tips them off that this is a man's garment).

You yourself have said that many women's fashion designers look to men's suits and men's kilts as inspiration. Well, that's not really our problem; in this case it is them copying us, not the other way around.

When I wear tweed my inspiration is not modern ladies' fashion, but rather authentic Highland fashion of a bygone era.