Ladies- do you wear "male" kilts or kilts made specially for women?

[Pleater]

As I make my kilts it's a bit academic as what exactly they might be defined as.

Kilts are not fastened on the left for women - at least not in the UK - I have found knitting patterns and a few old black and white films where women are wearing various sorts of kilt and they are all, without exception, fastened on the right.

The kilts I had as a child fastened on the right - so like the kimono, if it is a kilt, it wraps left over right.

I make reverse Kingussie style kilts and do not sew down the fell, so I would expect that anyone with about the same waist size as myself could put on one of my kilts and it would fit. I make them various lengths - it seems a shame not to use up the material if it is good stuff, so 24 inches or longer.

I suspect that the wars were one reason for the right side fastening - if you could get your hands on a kilt then you would wear it, as long as it could be fitted around you.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: