Women’s wear

[Pleater]

There is quite a long tradition of women wearing kilts of tweed or tartan for such things as gardening, shooting driven birds, fishing - from a dry position, hiking and suchlike from a time when women were getting out and about more, but it would not be considered proper for trousers to be worn. I am old enough to have known women who never put on trousers, not even pyjamas.

Here in the UK, having gone through times when cloth was difficult to come by, women did have to make do with what they could get hold of, and finding an old kilt to wear with the suddenly very fashionable fairisle jumpers was good luck indeed.

In the era of mini skirts there was a certain cache in having a real made in Scotland mini kilt.

Yes, it's a man's garment - and always will be, and it is fastened on the right side - but women have been pinching them, or buying or making their own for well over 100 years now....

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[MacThomas]

aside from the kilts that many women do wear
Mike

Not so many!?