Is a plaid skirt a kilt?

[Jock]

Ah have been looking in the clothes shops and there are plenty o women's pleated plaid skirts for sale at cheap prices, aye and wool at that.

So could I get awa' with wearing one and claiming its a kilt?

Then again does it matter?

[Brandy]

Jock,

"A kilt is a skirt, but not all skirts can be a kilt." If you see it as a plaid skirt so will everyone else. I see you are in England I believe the proper name maybe a Kilted Skirt if it looks good why not just wear it as a plaid kilted skirt.

I have a kilted skirt that looks like a light weight kilt. It's got the aprons etc. but a close look will show it as a "kilted Skirt", it's also plain black. It will often be mistaken for a kilt. Even once by a male assistant in a kilt shop!

-- Brandy

[binx]

You'll notice it wraps to the left as well, which could give it away as being a skirt.

binx

[Mary Jane Boy]

That's basically all I ever wear out and everyone, and I do mean everyone, always calls it a kilt, not to mention those who ask if I'm from Scotland. I always say yes to them and they get a huge smile on their face!

I don't think anyone, but yourself perhaps, would even know which way it should wrap much less care.

Mary Jane Boy

[Big and Bashful]

Jock man,
Naw man, it disnae matter a whit what you wear if its tartan, pleated and wraps roond yer waist, ecspecially in England ye ken. A few years ago I got hassled by a police in the country whilst wearing a genuine kilt (Ross hunting tartan(green)) withoot sporran but with the wee flashes. They asked me what I was doing wearing a skirt, I said words to the effect of "ah but, naw but, see but it's no a skirt, its a kilt 'n' that man. Because it was. I can understand the confusion, because I was nearly a mile away from Scotland at the time, so they probably hadn't even heard of a kilt!
The biggest difference between a trad. kilt and a wimmins skirty thing is a) kilts weigh several tons and get very very warm in anything less than a gale and b) a wimmins skurt dangles from the waist, rather than a kilt which is designed to dangle from the beer-gut, almost from the height of the bottom rib. So man, depending on your physique, a skirt trying to hang on to your body below a large overhang might not look very good. Man. Having said that, ye ken that there are many modern non trad. kilts which are hip huggers rather than gut hangers, so a tartan skirt is as much a kilt as many modern kiltish garments man, plaid or not.
Gofor it! End of the day man, tell them want you want'em to think, they probably won't know any better, they're only english (like me) man.

[Departed Member]

Jock man,
Naw man, it disnae matter a whit what you wear if its tartan, pleated and wraps roond yer waist, ecspecially in England ye ken. A few years ago I got hassled by a police in the country whilst wearing a genuine kilt (Ross hunting tartan(green)) withoot sporran but with the wee flashes. They asked me what I was doing wearing a skirt, I said words to the effect of "ah but, naw but, see but it's no a skirt, its a kilt 'n' that man. Because it was. I can understand the confusion, because I was nearly a mile away from Scotland at the time, so they probably hadn't even heard of a kilt!
The biggest difference between a trad. kilt and a wimmins skirty thing is a) kilts weigh several tons and get very very warm in anything less than a gale and b) a wimmins skurt dangles from the waist, rather than a kilt which is designed to dangle from the beer-gut, almost from the height of the bottom rib. So man, depending on your physique, a skirt trying to hang on to your body below a large overhang might not look very good. Man. Having said that, ye ken that there are many modern non trad. kilts which are hip huggers rather than gut hangers, so a tartan skirt is as much a kilt as many modern kiltish garments man, plaid or not.
Gofor it! End of the day man, tell them want you want'em to think, they probably won't know any better, they're only english (like me) man.

This sounds like "Catherine Tate visits Little Britain to say Auf Wiedersehen, Pet!" Absolutely brilliant, mate, absolutely brilliant!

[Big and Bashful]

Merlin man, cheers big yin! It's mare based on the NEDs in Chewing The Fat ye ken man. Sort of in the style of:
"Wot you got there man?"
"A Walkman man."
"Pure mad! Wot you listening to man?"
"Dustin Hoffman in Rainman man"
etc.
man.

p.s. Hoots.

I think I've taken that too far!

[Jock]

Wull now, muchtie me, thus is guid advice frae ye all, ye ken.

Ahm awa' tae Markus and McSpencer the noo, wi' a stop off at the offie fer a bottle o' malt tae get me in the mood.

Havers, I can well afford it wi' the saving on the skirtie, oops kilt

Oh, Ah can pop in tae McDonalds on the way as wull and get a wee hat and mebbe there wull be some Scottish national pudding, ye ken:-
Tart 'n Custard

Thanks all of ye!!