Wearing the kilt backwards

[pbpersson]

Many of you have expressed utter amazement that anyone could be so stupid as to wear a kilt backwards.

I was thinking of this last night and the fact of the matter is that kilts are just not that common in everyday life and you don't see them that often (yes, there is the Internet which is the Oracle of all knowledge but pretend for a moment that you have been living on the moon and don't know about it).

Now imagine that someone hands you a kilt and says "here, put this on". Wouldn't you naturally assume that you SIT DOWN on the flat part so as not to crush the pleats and you wear it with the decorative pleats in the front so everyone can see them?

I mean....it sort of seems logical, doesn't it?

I AM PHIL - THE BRAVE DEFENDER OF THE UTTERLY CLUELESS!

[smaughazard]

Uhhh……NO! We men tend to need the opening toward the front…

[pbpersson]

Uhhh……NO! We men tend to need the opening toward the front…

Well....I'm commenting from total ignorance because I have never seen a kilt up close but did they think they were just supposed to lift the kilt in the men's room? Take off the kilt in the men's room?

I don't know....but the groom and all the groomsmen made the same misake so I'm just trying to imagine what they were thinking...

[Colin]

Even without the internet, there are so many references to see how a kilt is worn. I don't where you are located, but kilts in Vancouver (and Winnipeg) were very common when I was growing up. No one in my family has worn them for a generation or two (besides moi!!!), but with movies, parades, Rememberance Day, the fact we have a piper for any kind of occasion, etc, etc it would be pretty hard for me (personally) to say I had not seen enough kilts to know how it was to be worn.

No. Anyone who thinks before they act would realize that the buckles would be wrong to begin with, why would anyone place the buckles backward?

This is my other point. Maybe it would be easy to put on a velcro closure kilt or a UK type kilt on backwards, but a traditional kilt would be difficult to put on backwards. It would feel like trying to put on dress pants backwards and do up the fly.

Maybe the kiltmakers need to send a 1 page info sheet with their kilts just in case.

[pbpersson]

I have seen kilts in a few parades but really didn't pay any attention to how they were made or worn.

I was told by my parents as a kid that since I was not Scottish I could never wear a kilt in my life and so I never gave it much thought.

I always thought that skirt-like garments and kilts would be comfortable, but being a man and not Scottish I was told it was against the law or an insult to wear them so I figured I never could.

[Raphael]

Maybe the kiltmakers need to send a 1 page info sheet with their kilts just in case.

Stillwater Kilts provides insructions on how to wear the kilt with every purchase.

[mbhandy]

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This is my other point. Maybe it would be easy to put on a velcro closure kilt or a UK type kilt on backwards, but a traditional kilt would be difficult to put on backwards. It would feel like trying to put on dress pants backwards and do up the fly.

When I was bartending one of my female customers left the bar with one of my male clients and came back with her jeans inside out and I asked her "I really want to know how you got your jeans zipped-up?" :rolleyes: she left for the ladies

MrBill

[Tattoo Bradley]

SWK even puts a not in their instructions preparing the customer for inevitable "underware questions" hehe.

[Riverkilt]

I've always thught it made more sense to sit on the flat part and not wrinkle the pleats.

Of course, a well crafted kilt with quality pleatwork (to the sett of course), looks like its being worn backwards from the rear view.

Ron

[billmcc]

I AM PHIL - THE BRAVE DEFENDER OF THE UTTERLY CLUELESS!

Yes, Phil, you are brave. However, there is no defense for the stupid things utterly clueless people do.