Quote Originally Posted by Blu (Ontario)
Most of the time, actually... and not just for modern kilts. The traditional kilt worn casualy gets lots of sideways glances and double takes as well.

At present, many people have trouble with answers such as "because it's comfortable" and "because I felt like it."

Obviously there must be a significant reason for a man to want to wear a non-bifurcated garment in public... even wives tend to be suspicious.

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I agree.

Last February a Australian woman, a relative newcomer to one of the Scottish Dance clubs I belong to, noting that I almost always wore the kilt to dance classes, asked why. I said it was the best thing for dancing. I went on to praise the comfort of it, warm in the winter and cool in the summer. "Ah, yes," she said, "I think more men should wear skirts." Since she was obviously intending that as support for the notion that unbifurcated garments are more comfortable, I did not challenge the S word. It did not bother me.

At the end of the summer, when classes resumed on a particularly hot evening, she remarked that she herself had taken to wearing skirts to the dance sessions even though she wore trousers normally. "Bet you wished you could go to the shops in your kilt on the hot days," she said to me. She was shocked when I told her that indeed I did so and that I had been wearing a casual PV kilt almost daily through the hot weather.

So here is someone who apparently supports the notion that men can (should even) be unbifurcated for comfort but who is still surprised by the thought that they might do so outside a "Scottish" context. More than that, as Blu says, she looked just a shade uncomfortable with the idea.

We have a way to go, gentlemen