Women in Kilts?

[Barb T]

It is cut for the male hips, which are slim and narrow compaired to a woman's, which must be rounded and wide. A kilt doesn't fit a women's hips well, hence it doesn't lay right. Women have the option in the kilted skirt, which is made for our hips.
Sorcha

Actually, it is perfectly possible to make a very well-fitting trad kilt that is shaped for a woman's hips (see first image below). In fact, you use the same method to shape a kilt skirt as to shape a traditional kilt, so that's not a valid argument for a woman to wear a kilt skirt instead of a kilt. I've made traditional kilts for female pipers and dancers where the waist/hip differential has been as much as 16" (26" waist, 42" hips). An athletic man (with a flat tummy and nicely-developed bun muscles) typically has a waist-hip differential of 8-9" (see for example, the second photo below). So, in fact, even men can't be fit by a cylindrical kilt, and the pleats have to taper from hips to waist. The waist/hip differential drops to zero when guys have a "bit of a corporation".

Barb T.