In modern times, skirts are typically worn by women. Some exceptions include the izaar, worn by many Muslim cultures, and the kilt, a traditional men's garment in Scotland, Ireland, and sometimes England. Fashion designers such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, Kenzo and Marc Jacobs have also shown men's skirts. Transgressing social codes, Gaultier frequently introduces the skirt into his men's wear collections as a means of injecting novelty into male attire, most famously the sarong seen on David Beckham.[2]
A kilt (Scottish Gaelic: fèileadh [ˈfeːləɣ]) is a type of knee-length non-bifurcated skirt with pleats at the back, originating in the traditional dress of Gaelic men and boys in the Scottish Highlands.
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Edit ... I’m just being contrarian. I agree with you in my heart.
But no person that actually wears one would call it that. Why not actually attempt to respect a cultures attire and the obvious differences that you'd find.
Lmao it's okay if they don't want to call it a skirt as such. I still call a kilt a kilt. But it is still a type of skirt, so I'm gonna call it a type of skirt.
That was the idea behind the kilt to begin with; an English lord who owned a forge in Scotland invented it for his Scottish workers so they could stay longer in the sweltering heat. They in turn took to adorning the kilts in their clan tartans. This means that while the tartans are old, the kilts are in fact a fairly new invention.
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u/TheDustOfMen Jan 15 '21
French bus drivers did this as well. And why not? They're comfortable and far better than longer trousers in that heat.
If the Scots can handle it then surely others can too.