Huffpo being negative about men's skirts

[renesm1]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/03 ... 72127.html

IMHO - I think that Marc Jacobs carries this look off very well. Shame the idiot writer doesn't think so (BTW - I don't consider writers for HuffPo as journalists, as journalist get paid to write stuff (speaking a journo myself)!!!

[Charlie]

Its the bit about being Scottish that baffle me. I've seen it before on the internet: "Should a man wear a skirt of a kilt?" Answer;"Only if he's Scottish"
I work with several Scots, male and female. They've all got the full compliment of limbs and only one head each, and presumably all the boy bits and girl bits (respectively); the only difference to the rest of us is their accent.
Ah, perhaps that it - talking with a different accent can qualify you to wear different clothes. Anyone know what a female accent sounds like, so I can wear a skirt?

Charlie

[Kilted_John]

I typically take what they (the HuffPo) say with a grain of salt. So, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

-J

[skirtyscot]

I love your reasoning there, Charlie!

[SkirtRevolution]

Its the bit about being Scottish that baffle me. I've seen it before on the internet: "Should a man wear a skirt of a kilt?" Answer;"Only if he's Scottish"
I work with several Scots, male and female. They've all got the full compliment of limbs and only one head each, and presumably all the boy bits and girl bits (respectively); the only difference to the rest of us is their accent.
Ah, perhaps that it - talking with a different accent can qualify you to wear different clothes. Anyone know what a female accent sounds like, so I can wear a skirt?

Charlie

Every now and then a person shows just how ignorant they really are and make comments like this "Only if he's Scottish". Here in Australia we have the famous Akubra hat, that many tourist love to wear. My response to this silly comment is simple; do you have to be Australian to wear an Akubra hat? NO!, Do you have to be Indian to wear a Kurta, Or European to wear pants? NO! Everything we wear today has come from some culture in some time, throughout the world. That how fashion works! People don’t make the same silly comment about any other item of fashion, so why do they think this only about the kilt? The truth is it just an excuse that hasn’t been thought through properly because of their own person social bias and ignorance and if they actual thought about their comments they would see that they make no logical sense.

Another thought I may add. I have seen in the past that when they show good looking men in kilts or even masculine skirt the comments are always different and possitive. I think that because they have shown pictures that really don't look that good (especially the pink dress) people feel inclined to be negative about the whole idea.

[crfriend]

Another thought I may add. I have seen in the past that when they show good looking men in kilts or even masculine skirt the comments are always different and possitive. I think that because they have shown pictures that really don't look that good (especially the pink dress) people feel inclined to be negative about the whole idea.

I have no doubt that the images were "cherry-picked" to find the least flattering ones and the ones that most supported the writer's point of view.

In my opinion, Jacobs could do better in his entire presentation, but that's just the view of one skirt-wearing wacko regarding another.

[MrUtopia]

I also do not get the comments about the need to shave legs to wear skirts. If Marc Jacobs was wearing shorts, I do not think he would get comments about hairy legs. Are legs different in skirts?

Peter

[skirtingtoday]

Its the bit about being Scottish that baffle me. I've seen it before on the internet: "Should a man wear a skirt of a kilt?" Answer;"Only if he's Scottish"
Ah, perhaps that it - talking with a different accent can qualify you to wear different clothes...
Charlie

For those who aren't Scottish, here is a quick lesson:- You know you are a true Scot if...........

1. Ye can properly pronounce loch, McConnochie, Ecclefechan, Milngavie, Sauchiehall St, St Enoch, Auchtermuchty and Aufurfuksake.
2. Ye actually like deep fried battered pizza fae the chippie.
3. Yer used tae four seasons in wan day.
4. Ye canna pass a chip/kebab shop withoot sleverin when yer blootert.
5. Ye kin fall about pished withoot spilling yer drink.
6. Ye see people wearin shell suits with burberry accessories - pure class!
7. Ye measure distance in minutes.
8. Ye kin understaun Rab C Nesbitt and know characters just like him, in yer ain family.
9. Ye go tae Saltcoats cos ye think it is like gaun tae the ocean.
10. Ye kin make hael sentences jist wae sweer wurds.
11. Ye know whit haggis is made fae and stull like eating it.
12. Somedy ye know his used a fitba schedule tae plan thur wedding day date.
13. You've been at a wedding and fitba scores are announced in the Church/Chapel.
14. Ye urny surprised tae find curries, pizzas, kebabs, fish n chips, iron-bru, fags and nappies all in the wan shop.
15. Yer holiday home at the seaside has calor gas under it.
16. Ye know irn-bru is a hangover cure.
17. Ye learnt tae sweer afore ye learnt tae dae sums.
18. Ye actually understand this and yurr gonnae send it tae yer pals.
19. Finally, you are 100% Scot if you have ever said/heard these words;

how's it gawn?, eejit, clatty, boggin, cludge, pished, get it up ye, wee beasties, away an bile yer heid, peely-wally, humphey backit, Ba'-heid and dubble nugget.


And finally......you understaun this joke...

A wee Glesga wumman goes intae a butcher shop, where the butcher has just came oot the freezer, and is standing haunds ahint his back, with his erse aimed at an electric fire.
The wee wumman checks oot the display case then asks, "Is that yer Ayrshire bacon?"
"Naw," replies the butcher. "It's jist ma haun's ah'm heatin'."

[skirtyscot]

Excellent, ST. I passed!

Note for Sassenachs and other foreigners: don't ask. They're just too hard to explain.

Re no 2, the deep-fried pizza was a mystery to all the Americans I met at university. They were also bemused by the idea of pizza and chips (that's French fries, Yanks!), but l the only place I have ever seen a chip pizza, i.e. pizza with cheese, tomato and chips topping was ... in Italy! In a wee resort where we were the only Brits and I only saw two other non-Italian families all week. I resisted the temptation and had one with spinach instead.

[skirtyscot]

I also do not get the comments about the need to shave legs to wear skirts. If Marc Jacobs was wearing shorts, I do not think he would get comments about hairy legs. Are legs different in skirts?

Obviously not. As some of us have commented before, a man's skirt has a man's hairy legs sticking out the bottom. People will just have to get used to it!

Same applies to comments about MJ's socks. (I think there was one, though I can't get access to the comments right now, so I may be talking nonsense.) If he had on shorts that length, would anyone have criticised his socks?

[Kirbstone]

Loch Aufurfuksake. Is that the narrow one between Lewis & Edinburgh? When navigating North of Hadrian's Wall it's good to have your bearings (marbles?) in order when confronted with signposts with such names on them.

The butcher joke is a real classic.

Tom K.

[skirted_in_SF]

Great butcher joke. Even this west coast of the US person got it. But I've been reading Alexander McCall Smith's series of books set in Glasgow.
Since this thread has already drifted off topic, I hope you don't mind if I ask another question. While out on St. Patrick's day I saw a woman wearing a tee shirt stating: Kiss me I'm Scott. Usually in this country that would be Irish and the heritage would be Scot in any case.Or is there a variant that I'm unaware of?

[crfriend]

While out on St. Patrick's day I saw a woman wearing a tee shirt stating: Kiss me I'm Scott. Usually in this country that would be Irish and the heritage would be Scot in any case.Or is there a variant that I'm unaware of?

Given the locale she might have been Scott at one point or will be Scott in a little bit.

I laughed like a fool over the butcher joke when I first read it, and I still get an occasional chuckle out of it.

[Since1982]

You sure it was a woman??? Lots of men named Scott in this world, and there are just tons of men in our modern world that can easily pass for women.....sort of like a TV personality named Paul...as in Ru Paul.

AND....you said

Ye can properly pronounce loch, McConnochie, Ecclefechan, Milngavie, Sauchiehall St, St Enoch, Auchtermuchty and Aufurfuksake.
2. Ye actually like deep fried battered pizza fae the chippie.
3. Yer used tae four seasons in wan day.
4. Ye canna pass a chip/kebab shop withoot sleverin when yer blootert.
5. Ye kin fall about pished withoot spilling yer drink.
6. Ye see people wearin shell suits with burberry accessories - pure class!
7. Ye measure distance in minutes.
8. Ye kin understaun Rab C Nesbitt and know characters just like him, in yer ain family.
9. Ye go tae Saltcoats cos ye think it is like gaun tae the ocean.
10. Ye kin make hael sentences jist wae sweer wurds.
11. Ye know whit haggis is made fae and stull like eating it.
12. Somedy ye know his used a fitba schedule tae plan thur wedding day date.
13. You've been at a wedding and fitba scores are announced in the Church/Chapel.
14. Ye urny surprised tae find curries, pizzas, kebabs, fish n chips, iron-bru, fags and nappies all in the wan shop.
15. Yer holiday home at the seaside has calor gas under it.
16. Ye know irn-bru is a hangover cure.
17. Ye learnt tae sweer afore ye learnt tae dae sums.
18. Ye actually understand this and yurr gonnae send it tae yer pals.

What language was all that? Looks to me.

[skirtingtoday]

Skip,

The language is a throttled form of English spoken by the natives of the largest city on Scotland - Glasgow. They have also the largest number of words for drunkenness in the world!

Translations of most of the words can be found here

http://www.glesga.ndo.co.uk/glesgaglossary.htm