Women in Kilts

[highlander_Daz]

I think what you wear should be a matter of chice for the individual alone and what others, think or feel shouldnt really be a factor ( unless your displaying orfeensive slogans etc) I personally find far more offensive is the FCUK clothing range worn by young people its in very poor taste.
Highland wear is very smart and is a breath of fresh air, If I go to a ball or wedding , you see all the guys in "penguin suits" and a prince charlie is so much better and you can see a lot of guys thinking
"i must get one of those!!!"

women these days are under pressure to conform to the advertisers ideas of how women should look, its great when women and men rise above this and wear something thats original, smart and very cool like for example a kilt!! women look great in them, especially when dancing, when I was at school we did highland dance at lunchtime and it was the highlight of the school day.

[Jimmy Carbomb]

women these days are under pressure to conform to the advertisers ideas of how women should look, its great when women and men rise above this and wear something thats original, smart and very cool like for example a kilt!! women look great in them...

AMEN brother! Testify!

You also made a GREAT point in the "accessories". I would MUCH rather see a woman in a kilt, than a guy in an ill-fitting kilt... or wearing sandals... or an offensive t-shirt... or acting like an idiot. What does more for the fine image of kilts?

I would say that there's a compromise, but that's hard to stomach. Some like men in kilts. Some like women in kilts. Janet Reno in a kilt is just NOT a good compromise.

[Jerry]

I did see a woman wearing a Sportkilt (Black Watch tartan) last year at the Richmond highland ganes. She was wearing some horrible pink shoes with it. I thought it was an insult to the regiment. Here is another way women are moving into male organizations. I a, a league bowler. The men's sanctioning body is the ABC, and the womems is the WIBC. As of a few years ago, women can join the ABC and bowl in sanctioned men's leagues and tournaments. Men aren't allowed to join the WIBC and bowl in women's tournaments. I am not against women in the men's tournament (my daughter is my doubles partner in this years men's Va state tournament), but I do think, "turnabout would be fair play". Anyhow, the matter is going to be somewhat resolved as the ABC and the WIBC are merging this year into the USBA. I will bet, however that there will still be "women only" tournaments allowed, but not "men only" tournaments.

[Aaron]

Jimmy said:

Janet Reno in a kilt is just NOT a good compromise.

Hmm, Janet Reno... I don't care how you cut it, that's too much neck skin for just one woman.

[Riverkilt]

Hello, was hoping for a post from some of the lassies on the board....???

For me its real simple. If its mostly women that are creating our kilts, they certainly have the right to wear them.

Yes, I know, some guys sew kilts too.

And the lassies do look soooooo hot in a kilt

Ron

[Jimmy Carbomb]

Hello, was hoping for a post from some of the lassies on the board....???

Sort of speaks loads to their ability to avoid conflict better.

I'm sure they would be MORE than happy to address the actual "women in kilts" issue, but I don't think the "tangents" are going to be touched. I just can't (for the life of me) equate women in kilts with women in men's sports or organizations.

I won't say that women don't belong in kilts... but I DO prefer women out of kilts.

[Riverkilt]

Wonder what Freud would say....?

I was born in an Army hospital (Craig Field, Alabama) and the day after I experienced my first, and hopefully last, amputation when my "natural kilt" was removed from you know what.

Perhaps "kilt addiction" is rooted in a craving to replace lost foreskins and that's why its more of a guy thing....?

Ron

[Magnus Sporrano]

No matter what we men wear, women want to wear it, too. Nothing can be done about it. They will always have more fashion freedom than us.

You want to be different? Wear it like a man.

[mcnice]

i totally agrre with jimmy. could not explain better.

on the one hand from the postings here i see the trend keeping the kilt as a men´s garment in order to preserve something of true "manliness".

i m not proud about what manliness meant the last centuries. for my part am thinking that we should treat women in another way as we did the last 2000 years. for that reason the kilt for me personaly is also a way for breaking with conservative and traditional understandings of manliness. i m not orienting my vision of manhood anymore on trouser-wearing guys.
i think not only women needed their freedom movement (emancipation) but in fact also men would need one.
what sense does it make if only the women are questioning the past, but not the other relevant half?

to be honest, just spoken from the comfort aspect:
there is nothing more comfortable than a kilt. and that does not depend on gender. even trousers are much more comfortable for lassies than for us.
so i don t understand the discussion that the girls took everything from us?
it s just a question of comfort and btw freedom. cause horsing or working in long lassie skirts isn´t as practical as doing that stuff in shorter garments...
i beleive social construction, hierarchy and the way we shall feel and behave in society is strongly relied to clothing.
what other reason could there be, when women were terrorised when they started wearing trousers?

[lynnie]

Do men think women should go back to wearing cumbersome long dresses and whalebone undergarments?

Life has changed, women have the vote and shocking though it might be, women wear pants even! And kilts! Get over it, enjoy the view.

As a dancer when young I wore kilt, jacket, tam with feathers, sporran, argyles and plaid in competition. Looked good too!

At 61 I still wear a kilt. I teach dance and play tenor drum in pipeband for past 25 years.

Here's tae us!