Women in Kilts?

[staticsan]

A woman's blouse opens from the left and a man's shirt opens from the left. A kilted skirt opens from the left and a man's kilt opens from the right. That cannot be that difficult to understand and no matter how much anyone relies on someone else's misguided opinion about where the buckles belong, a woman's skirt, kilted or no, still opens from the left.

It is somewhat ironic that the reasons for this are little more than historical inertia. Although a quick Google search fails to find me anything definitive, it does have something to do with how people were dressed when button-down shirts (for example) became widespread. Whilst shirts for men open almost exclusively to the right, shirts for women open both ways, thus showing that practicality eventually wins.

This all sounds very familiar! Since the whole purpose of men wearning kilts outside of Scottish Historical Events is to put aside a lot of such historical baggage, which way the apron of a women's kilt folds ought to be largely up to the owner of the garment.

Ya know, I wouldn't be hugely surprised if left-handed males decided they liked the apron to fold to the left...

Wade.