Another advantage for skirts.

[couyalair]

Running for a bus last night, I tripped and fell, making a nice mess of my hands and knees. If I had been wearing trousers they would surely have been ripped and ruined. My skin will mend; cloth would have to be thrown away. My kilt, however, was unaffected, not even dirty.
Second fall this year ... A witness said this one was quite spectacular !

Martin

[RichardA]

....so being naked would be even better

[janrok]

.....and much more spectacular....................

[couyalair]

Not at this time of year, Richard!

Further advantage:
Wore knee-length all day yesterday, but feeling tired and cold in the evening, put on a long skirt. Not a good idea. It rubbed and weighed on my injured knee, and, in spite of bandages, was stained with blood by the time I took it off. Just as trousers would have been.

So viva just-above-the-knee-length skirts.

Sunny and warm today, so a still shorter skirt is fine -- at home.

Martin

[Kirbstone]

It's too blzerozerody cold & wet here now to sensibly wear anything remotely short, unbifurcated or no. Sorry about your knee, Martin. Old people do fall down,y' know. In old ladies especially it's mostly a weakening of the nerve supply/musculature that is in the front of the calf and raises the foot/toes. The condition is known as 'foot drop' and results in stumbling on uneven surfaces and breakage of something higher up, e.g. the hip. The old chestnut osteoporosis also contributes to that.
Sorry, it's the Medic in me sounding off, but a lot of my friends are now in that category. I danced with a 79 year-old lady on New Year's Eve and was horrified to learn that she had fallen only days later and broke her hip. Fortunately she's now on the mend & I sent her a card with Fred & Ginger 'in full flight' on it with suitable comments.

Fred & Ginger in full flight.jpg

Tom K.

[couyalair]

What do you mean : "Sorry about your knee, Martin. Old people do fall down,y' know." ? ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
I'm not quite 70 yet!

Lovely pic of G & F. I like dancing and I like watching good dancing. Those two were fabulous.

Some of us find it difficult to go unbifurcated because it is so far outside society's norms. I wonder how difficult it was for Fred all those years ago to dance and break through into such a sissy activity without being an outcast.
If he could brave narrow-minded machism then, surely we can in today's somewhat more open society.

He also took up this sissy dancing without feeling the need to adopt feminine ways or costumes.

Courage, men!

Martin

[JRMILLER]

Martin,
I would have gladly had the pants take the damage instead of my knee! Of course, I don't like pants anyway... unless needed for protection.

I live working outside and have a lot of various tools (toys if you will) that can cause a lot of damage to my skin. I generally wear bib-overalls while working with my tools because I don't like stuff getting stuck in my skin or ripping a leg open.. It's very easy to patch the bib overalls, not so easy (or inexpensive) to patch me...

[the_scott_meister]

Interestingly enough, I just watched a G & F movie on Netflix this evening, "Royal Wedding" I think it was called. Actually, my wife and her sister watched it, I paused for a while during the dancing scenes. You just don't see anything that good any more. Not that I'm old either, mind you.

Anyway, sorry to hear about the fall, Martin. I've had my share of those, though not really since I was little, but I still remember them quite vividly.

[couyalair]

And another advantage when you are getting old and creeky, whether from falls or just advancing years (I'm managing to combine both right now) is that with wrap-round skirt or kilt, you don't have to bend over, raise your legs, bend your knees, or risk losing your balance, putting your legs into trousers or non-wrapping skirts.
I have been very happy to use kilts for just that reason this year.

The other skirts that I wear, from women's dept, of course, have only very short zips (compared with a man's trouser fly) and it can be quite a fight to get yourself inside as well as the tails of your upper clothes.

Martin

[mugman]

On the subject of wraparound (kilts mainly) I find that if I breath in enough I can slip into a kilt without having to do up all the straps each time. I wonder how many others are this lazy? Tucking shirt tails or t shirt in is sometimes a performance and often has to be pulled down from underneath all around. But it's still quicker than putting a kilt on from it's flat unwrapped beginnings. Also easier to hang up afterwards.
Pete.

[Kirbstone]

Enter the 'Sportkilt' with its velcro waist surfaces. Fast on, fast off, and will accommodate changes in girth as well.

Tom K.

[couyalair]

The straps and buckles on trad kilts are a nuisance indeed. I do without, and my kilts are kept on with belt -- none have fallen off yet!

Martin

[r.m.anderson]

I view kilts that fasten close with velcro as something similiar to the UK tool the 'Adjustable Spanner' (Crescent Wrench).
Or put in another way the multi-purpose adjustable tool.
Doesn't matter whether you have put on or lost a few pounds the kilt will always fit and the best part is not having to
fumble with the torturous straps and buckles.

"Kilt-Fastened-With-Velcro-No-Buckling-Required"
rma

[Since1982]

I'm 70, and haven't fallen down in 30 years. That time I was bouncing on the end of a diving board and slipped, still got wet and didn't hit anything irreplaceable. (like my head)..

[kingfish]

On the subject of wraparound (kilts mainly) I find that if I breath in enough I can slip into a kilt without having to do up all the straps each time. I wonder how many others are this lazy? Tucking shirt tails or t shirt in is sometimes a performance and often has to be pulled down from underneath all around. But it's still quicker than putting a kilt on from it's flat unwrapped beginnings. Also easier to hang up afterwards.
Pete.

The times I've been professionally measured for the kilt, they always seem to measure just above the belly button, with hardly any tension on the tape. That circumference on me is invariably larger than the one around my hips. In fact, with kilts of that size, I can drop them to the floor simply by tightening my abdominal muscles. Of course, I'm also around 50 pounds over what the doctors want me to be at.

And yeah, mind does tend to stay buckled. Sucking in my gut and stepping into it, then straightening the shirt tail as described is my usual method.