Quote Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome View Post
Then I guess I've made an awfull lot of skirts over the past few years:
http://kilts.albanach.org

And, I suppose, there were an awfull lot of Highland men wearing "skirts" prior to about 1854 when the Gordon regiment became the first to switch from box pleats to knife pleats.
http://kilts.albanach.org/history.html

Here I am in one of my favorite "skirts." :-)


Sorry. I may sympathize with your point of view, but from an historical standpoint I'm afraid your definition is too narrow and would not include many kilts that were quite the norm before the latter half of the nineteenth century (and still being worn today by some of us).
Matt you are, of course, dead right from a historical point of view. I am afraid though that most Scots will not have a clue as to what you are talking about! To them the traditional (tank) Victorian style, wool, tartan, knife pleated kilt is the one they know ,or, have in their minds eye. Anything else, probably will not do!