womens views on mens skirts/kilts

[mugman]

With the lively movement of air we're experiencing this morning (which kept me awake most of the night - OK, make up your own jokes ), anyone in Bideford today in a skirt will not be hard to spot. Good luck! Trousers for me today.
Pete

[equ4ll]

I've not had a chance to wear last few days as iv been working but will do my next day off and i totally agree today its a little windy for skirts by anyones standards, best suited for warm days but il still wear a skirt/kilt if its cold or rainy otherwise we could go months without.

[Big and Bashful]

I have found that if you have to be wet and cold, a denim skirt feels less cold and wet than jeans, maybe because with jeans the fabric is hard against your skin, just a thought!

[equ4ll]

It has been brought to my attention that my grammar and punctuation has been unacceptable for a few people, I've had quite an insulting message sent to me making derogatory remarks about my background and university education which I found wholly unacceptable. At first I thought that this may have been some joke but quite clearly it wasn't so in the future if anyone has anything that they disagree or don't like about me then tell me straight and to the point in a fair way and not make silly remarks about my heritage, background, education or whatever as I like most people would find it offensive.
From now on now that I realise my gammar and punctuation is bothering a few I will use capitals and use "I" instead of "i" where appropriate, people shouldn't forget that if society is meant to becoming more liberal and relaxed then certain people shouldn't be worried about achieving perfect grammar all the time (that was reserved back in blue bloodied Victorian aristocracy) and instead concentrate on achieving fashion freedom for men which is what global liberal democracies partly needs in my view.

[Kirbstone]

Hi Equ4ll,
How did you come up with your pseudonym? North Devon I know well...Windy spot these days, so there'll be lots of flying pleats, I expect.

They say presentation is everything, and prose is much easier to read and digest when divided up a bit. We all make typos, and proofing one's own work is indeed difficult. People of my generation however find deliberate shortcuts like 'nite' and other texting abbreviations mixed in with otherwise interesting reading a bit offputting, to say the least.
You have a lot of good points of view, and I would agree that the rest of us would enjoy reading them more if you took a breather, so to speak, between sentences. I hope this won't interfere with your train of thought.....which a lot of us here identify with. (I've gaffed!)

Now I'll quote W. Churchill: 'Never use a preposition to end a sentence with'. !!!

Tom K.

[equ4ll]

Hi Tom
I came up with the pseudonym basically from trying to think of a username that's catchy but also typifies my beliefs in the broader terms of fashion, it's a pseudonym that probably could be given for an organisations name such as "Equ4ll Fashion" for example rather than for an individual.
Yesterday I did wear my black kilt down in Bideford in the evening, it was quite sunny and not to windy so I went out to get some gas for my car wearing my kilt and again I had no issues at all. The gas station was very busy with 30 - 40 something year old guys chatting away and young girls at their car and all I got was either approving looks or people chatting away as if I was wearing trousers. There was one young girl early 20s kept looking in a wow thats different kind of way, I must admit it felt quite empowering and liberating once again so I'm just hoping for a run of nice weather so I can keep on wearing kilts/skirts, and hopefully this windy anti skirt weather will stop. I must ask Tom although I see you are based in Ireland do you get down to North Devon much.

[Kirbstone]

Hi Equ4ll,

I hope you realise that what weather you get is normally our left-overs. The Welsh people suffer the same fate. You see, in their case it's a continuing installments payment for 'their' St Patrick who we nabbed off them all those years ago. Well WE made the guy famous, after all!

The Scots get theirs fresh and unused off the N. Atlantic, as theirs misses us by several degrees latitude. They're welcome to it, if you ask me. Check out B&B's comments on that.

By the way, From next Thursday we will provide you with MUCH warmer weather with mild winds &c. so from then you may indulge in shorter skirts and get your knees brown.

The wife has a raft of cousins in S. Devon and N. Cornwall....Dartmouth, Honiton & Bude. We have a daughter+Spouse & two grandchildren living in Tiverton, so the answer is Yes, but the caveat is that when I go there it's always a tight schedule of relations-visiting in the wife's VW campervan driven by her, so a free day to look you up (or Pete Mugman) doesn't look likely in the short term, I'm afraid.
I quite often have to cut my stay short and fly home from Exeter to work, leaving the wife to indulge herself there for longer than I can manage.

A get together would be fun, though...

Tom K.

[Big and Bashful]

Humph!,
Today the weather is looking much better, only a reasonable gale and occasional sun between the showers, I take it this is the Indian Summer before Winter closes in, in June!
Managed to get my damaged sail off the boat yesterday, got thoroughly soaked while doing it. Ended up sat in the pub with deck shoes squelching as I had soup and a steak pie to warm up! Then home to a house in half darkness as a fuse had blown and I couldn't find any fuse wire.
Today, fixed the house lights, discovered the sail loft was shut, bought another tender for the boat (Hard transom in this one, Avon Redcrest for sale now), bought a skirt from Midas. A quiet day so far, now trying to muster the energy to braise a load of steak off.

[mugman]

Equ4ll, you'll probably find that any locals who get to see you at regular places like filling stations and stores will soon get used to your kilt wearing. At least they have with me. Although those double takes and looks of admiration might gradually disappear as your look fits in with the community, that's sad, but not bad, because they have simply come to expect to see you in a kilt.
Pete

[Since1982]

It's me equ4ll is complaining about, although personal messages should stay in the personal messages area. All I asked him was to try to not start sentences with small I's and to try to stay away from "post" long sentences. I didn't TELL him to do anything. Just made a couple of suggestions to make him LOOK brighter. He seems to have taken it as a personal attack or affront, neither of which it was. Just offered help. My bad.

[crfriend]

[...] although personal messages should stay in the personal messages area.

[Mod hat on]

As a matter of operational policy, it should be noted that each private message that one receives has a "button" on it containing a large red exclamation mark. If one is put off, or insulted enough, by a private message one can "push" the "button" to report the message to the moderation staff. Abuse in private messages is as actively discouraged as it is in the public space -- it's just that the moderators cannot see into the private space and need notification if a member is abusing the system.

Penalties for consistent patterns of abusive behavior may range from the suspension of PM rights on up to expulsion from the community if the offence is particularly egregious.

[Mod hat off]

... and it's just as scratchy as I remembered it. Perhaps a nice smooth nylon lining -- or better yet tin foil! Yes, that's the ticket!

Joking aside, spelling and grammar flames typically lead to no good; they enrage sensibilities, and don't garner the response one would like. In fact, I have never seen grammar and spelling wars work out well; they have, however, left things sour for onlookers.

Now, this is not to say that grammar, capitalisation, and punctuation are not important -- they are! Structure adds to the readability of text, and that's what the above tools bring to the table: please use them. In short, take pride in what you write -- you never know where it might end up. Your written words need to "speak" for you in your absence; help them help you by using writing techniques that help your words get your idea across. Everybody understands, and typically forgives, the occasional typographical blunder -- because they commit them themselves -- so there is no point in getting enraged over them either.

[equ4ll]

Hi Tom
I can see why you have strong links to the south west with your wife having family down here, I sure hope the weather does turn for thursday if thats the forecast, as I'm new to wearing skirts I only wear if it's a nice day at the moment. When my family get more used to me wearing skirts I'll definately wear in colder/rainy weather.

[Jock]

Now, this is not to say that grammar, capitalisation, and punctuation are not important -- they are! Structure adds to the readability of text, and that's what the above tools bring to the table: please use them. In short, take pride in what you write -- you never know where it might end up. Your written words need to "speak" for you in your absence; help them help you by using writing techniques that help your words get your idea across. Everybody understands, and typically forgives, the occasional typographical blunder -- because they commit them themselves -- so there is no point in getting enraged over them either.

Beautifully put Carl. Here, here!

My Bad.

Wassup Skip ma man. You is wicked fo real, bro! How tings in da hood?

[Kirbstone]

Hyp-Hyp-Hurreigh!!