Women in Kilts?

[Nanook]

Perhaps you haven't noticed that men's clothing and women's clothing are made differently and have been for a couple hundred years.

I need to strongly disagree and refer you to read my earlier message in this thread.

A woman's blouse opens from the left and a man's shirt opens from the left.

Many women's "blouses" (a name not exclusive to women's garb) have their buttons to the right and others to the left. Are the ones with buttons on the right really effeminate men's shirts?

A kilted skirt opens from the left and a man's kilt opens from the right.

Many women's kilted skirts close to the right . All wrap around skirts from (royal-warrant holder) Kinloch Anderson close to the right . Their box pleated skirt is not wrap around. It has a zipper to the left .

I do know of many designers that place their skirt closures to the front, left, right, rear and various offset positions. Among the skirts with fly front (zipper and button and/or press-stub) many (but not all) even close right (like a pair of Levi's 501 jeans).

I have seen vintage (pre-war) men's kilts that closed to the left.

The fact of the matter is: nearly all contemporary women's skirts are derived from male garments. They literally cast their shrouds aside to wear male symbols. The "short skirt" that many here fear their kilts are being mistaken for is indeed a garment with a male heritage (much directly from Highland kilts and Greek Foustanela) . While I know of many historical short skirts (knee of shorter) worn by men I know of none that were worn by women (save in fiction). Its relatively modern that men have taken to the pursuit of uniformity (not to stand out) rather than (as in nature) ostentatious display ("peacock"). Many of the "founding fathers" of the United States ran about in
lace, silk-velvets with frills, pumps, wigs and make-up. Today at the Central Criminal Court ("Old Bailey") one finds judges in formal robes with wigs on their heads and "pumps" (court shoes) on their feet.

"So after 1635, the correctly-dressed judge would have worn a black robe faced with miniver (a light-coloured fur) in winter, and violet or scarlet robes, faced with shot-pink taffeta, in summer. A black girdle, or cincture, was worn with all robes." [ from: http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about_ju...tory/index.htm ]

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.

Nanook "misguided" of the North :-)