whats the difference between a kilt and a skirt?

[iamasadlittleboy]

i keep getting told there different, how are they?

[way2fractious]

i keep getting told there different, how are they?

If you skirt the issue too often, you get kilt.

[Southern Breeze]

Welcome aboard! Kilt is what you get when you call it a skirt.

[Kiltman]

Kilt or skirt, skirt or kilt, it's a big issue with some. I can't figure out why?

[Blu (Ontario)]

If you were lucky enough to be wearing a kilt, you'd be "ahappylittleboy"

[Yaish]

Seriously, its somewhat like the difference between a rectangle and a square. A square is a rectangle (four sided object with four 90 degree corners) but a rectangle isnt a square (four equal sides, with 90 degree corners).

A kilt is a type of skirt, (an unbifurcated garment that covers the body from the waist down), but a kilt is a more specific type, namely being pleated, and fastening by wrapping about the body, ending somewhere near the knees, as well as being designed mainly for men.

I suppose you could get yet more specific about what makes up a scottish kilt, but in honesty the garment has been pretty mutable for most of its history, with only these last 200 years or so really seeing a hardening of what makes it a 'traditional scottish kilt'.

To me, any pleated mens skirt is a kilt (be it a hand sewn tank, sportkilt, UK, Amerikilt, etc...). If it lacks pleats, is shorter or longer by more than a few inches from kneelength, or is designed with women in mind, then its a skirt only, not also a kilt.

[Mike1]

Please don't feed the trolls.

[craig]

It bothered me at first, but technically a kilt is a skirt. A man-skirt.

After a year or two, it got to where I didn't care at all what it's called. A girliefriend calls me 'Skirt' and some of her friends don't even know my real name.

I'm comfortable and free, that's all I care about.

[Pittsburgh Kilts]

i keep getting told there different, how are they?

Dude,

Spend this week working on the difference between "there" and "they're". We'll tackle skirts and kilts next week!

[Mike1]

Jeff, there's no way to top that one and people are certainly going to try, so -

Thread locked.

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