Navajo Women

[Tim Walker]

The best label for the Navajo garments would be the Navajos' own term.

[Rigged]

I'm wondering if it's something as simple as a woman asking someone wearing a "skirt" to sit the way a lady would sit if she were wearing one.

It's hard to get inside someone else's head, so maybe it's best to assume good intentions in the absence of other evidence.

Most people know very little about kilts and have only their own experience to draw from. That experience is women and girls wearing skirts and dresses. Just like guys who think they're supposed to shave their legs when they wear a kilt because [most] women shave their legs when they wear skirts, many people don't know how a man is supposed to wear a kilt.

Many of us didn't know before we came here.

[Tim Walker]

I seem to recall a post about some women who tried on kilts...and were surprised that they could sit with their knees apart without exposing themselve. Perhaps the Navajo woman didn't know this.

[The Wizard of BC]

Bringing this thread back to kilts directly while still dealing with inter-cultural misunderstandings --- Has anyone else had an experience bumping against another culture?

Here in the Pacific NW the indiginious cultures are so diverse that my kilt wearing is not an issue. (I wear 1st peoples art as kilt pins as well as kokopelli and get more comments on them than on the kilt.)

I do however run into people from E. Asia who voice opinions that range from admiration for my respect for my ancestors to outright disgust for being blatently outside of my own cultural norm. And then there is "Gung Haggis Fat Choy" A combined Robbie Burns/Chinese New Year celebration for those of Chinese/Scots ancestry.

And there was this one time on the ferry when I was berated for over a half hour by a Parisian named Paul McGinty, in a very thick French accent, who thought I should be made to stay in my car and not allowed to pollute his heterosexual world.

K'serra, serra says I.

Anyone have another story?

[ranchergal8]

Bringing this thread back to kilts directly while still dealing with inter-cultural misunderstandings --- Has anyone else had an experience bumping against another culture?
Here in the Pacific NW the indiginious cultures are so diverse that my kilt wearing is not an issue. I do however run into people from E. Asia who voice opinions ...
.. by a Parisian named Paul McGinty, in a very thick French accent, who thought I should be made to stay in my car and not allowed to pollute his heterosexual world.

I think it's great that you guys are wearing kilts. Here it is 2007 and I'm sure that the peoples (scottish, et al) maybe wondered (after many centuries) if wearing it would still last? Kudos to you. Yes, indigenious cultures may / can incorporate some clothing into everyday life. On the westside here, there is a orthodox population that have no qualms IDing their ways. Wanted to say thanks to the book recommendations which I will go look up on the scottish ones and also the Elijah book that original poster put up (re: that subject- there's going to be more material published and also films on that sorry subject).
As to the other non related stuff - I don't have that kind of time.