Parallels...

[mugman]

I don't know if anyone has opened up this parallel can of worms yet.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main ... uit129.xml
This not to do with skirts or kilts, but I suppose runs along similar lines of mixed public reaction. Maybe there's a use for my old suits after all.
(I wonder if anyone has yet attempted, or got someone to alter for them, a pair of suit trousers into a skirt, thereby retaining the same matching material. But I guess that's a topic of its own.)

[Uncle Al]

Interesting, yet this is the norm if you are in Bermuda.

IMO, knee-highs or over-the-calf hose would be better
than what I saw in the picture on the paper's website.

Now if this were a 'kilt suit', IMO the 'gent' would not
have had a 2nd look, unless it was admiration for wearing
a kilt suit. I would love to have a kilt suit, but budget
will not allow it. And in this heat wave we are having,
12 days straight of 100 degrees or higher,
Any Suit would be to blasted hot!

Uncle Al
Duncanville, TX

[mugman]

I'm currently devising a kilt suit, Uncle Al, on lesser budgets. What it will look like I've no idea until it comes together. It might be a near miss. Anyway, for fairly meagre expense I'm having a new standard black suit jacket altered to kilt jacket proportions by a recently discovered sewing artist up the road. The material is quite smooth, but the black kilt to go with it (which she adjusted in length as a previous job) is a little courser. Maybe it'll work...even as just a colour match.

[RichardA]

Shorts and long socks were common for business men in Australia in the late 70s early 80s when I was there

[Peter v]

What is all the fuss about? I lived in beautiful Australia until 1973, and we wore shorts and long socks in the summer. I expect that office personnel did wear normal suit trousers, can't remember. I would say why not wear "neat" shorts as a suit?
Only fools would have a problem with that. It still should be a individual CHOICE. And if we are going that way, even those short pants are a sighn of the "freestyling" that we skirt wearers are making good use of. The next step is to have a skirt suit which women of course have and which men can wear just as well. Or have a kilt worn.

Although kilts are really great skirts, being a special type of skirt, called the kilt, I would not advocate wearing of kilts as THE alternative to shorts, but advocate skirted suit options, of which kilts are a very smart and for some unknown reason look very "manly". The trap in advocating let us say kilts as THE alternative to shorts, is that you then exclude all other skirt possibilitys.

It is a missed opportunity, that with the same article it wasn't talked about the skirting possibility which is even better for warm weather.

[sapphire]

I'll agree that knee high socks would look better with this outfit.

I also feel this look could be improved by cuffing the hem. Right now it looks like an afterthought, rather than an intentional fashion creation.

Just a thought.... If one wanted to transform a trousered suit into a skirted suit, one could cut off the lower portion of the trousers (as seen in the picture) open up the inseam and use the fabric from the lower portion of the trousers to patch in enough fabric to make a comfortable skirt, something along the lines of what gets done in denim.

[Since1982]

It's nothing new...In the 1970's I worked for a short while at WTVJ television station in Miami Florida. ALL on camera reporters that sat behind desks in what "looked" like business suits were wearing shorts under the newsdesk. Some were the same as their suit jackets, some were bermuda shorts, some were swim trunks. It's HOT under those lights, air conditioning or not. The women reporters did the same, very perfect business suits above the desk, shorts below. I even saw Al Roker doing his (after he gained too much weight for standing) sit down weather report wearing a towel under the desk. It was and probably still IS very commonplace nationwide for wearing of shorts with business suits if you didn't have to stand full body in front of a camera.