Style Guy
January 31, 2011

The Style Guy: he’s gotcha covered

Dear Style Guy,

Plaid in mainstream fashion is more popular in the female market and so has eased its way into to our collective wardrobe through accessories (hats, hoes [sic!!], and pleated skirts) however, it remains, the kilt is traditionally a male garment. As a Highland dancer I fell in love with the swing and weight of our dancing kilts. I was inspired by the book So You’re Going to Wear the Kilt (where the author encourages his reader to wear the kilt in daily life) as well as the glorious feel of a kilt in the first place, to venture purchasing one of my own.

What is your opinion on the matter? Do I make the investment to buy a full kilt? A pleated hostess skirt is for a more mature individual, and a kilted mini skirt is too “cute” for my age.

I could always join a band, or a Highland regiment, but there again the kilt has a specific purpose: to be worn only at official gatherings as the regimental uniform, and, more often than not, in formal dress.

Maggie

Oh, wake up, Maggie, I think I have something to say to you . . . sorry, I couldn’t resist that. Anyway, enough of Mr. Stewart and Mr. Wood, on to your answer.

 

A “kilt” today means many things. As you mention, Highland dancers of either gender wear Saxony kilts. Catholic schoolgirls wear kilts. The landed gentry of Argyllshire wear plaid  picnic blankets over boxer shorts with little hearts all over them synched up with a belt made of kelp and call it a kilt, pretending they’re dirt-poor as they step out of their 2011 Land Rovers. Why, I even kilt a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

 

A “kilt” has no real rules any more outside of what serious pipers and drummers should wear, which is my department. As you’re evidently not a piper or even with a pipe band, then wear whatever tartan thingmee you please and be happy.

 

Just watch out for the hoes.

3 COMMENTS

  1. I’m waiting to see who’s gonna be first to wear jackets with the players” name and number across the back…or white Ghillies to contrast against the black hose…or worn and faded denim kilts with leather jackets and studs for the”terminator” look…or chain pipe cords…or tartan Bermuda shorts with pith helmets in the hotter locales…or designer sporrans by Gucchi…or leather kilts with Kodiak work boots on a rainy muddy field for better traction and water repellent properties…or clear multi-coloured drum shells…yeah…that’s the ticket!”

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