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General discussion of skirt and kilt-based fashion for men, and stuff that goes with skirts and kilts.
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I may be a little picky here but take this with a grain of salt. It's really kind of tongue in cheek but I take language rather seriously...maybe a little to seriously.
The first time that I saw the word "unbifrocated" I thought it was kind of cool. After mulling it over, I discovered that something wasn't quite right about it. I finally figured out why. The word "bifrocated comes from the word "frock", meaning a skirt or a dress. Bifrocated, then, would mean two skirts, which is after all what pant's really are, one skirt for each leg. With that in mind, "unbifrocated" would mean that there are no skirts or, in this case no legs. That leaves us with, basically, a waist band, a crotch and a back seam. More or less a thong.
To be more precise as far as proper words are concerned, a skirt should more correctly be called "unifrocated" or "monofrocated" garments. After all the skirt did come way before the pants came in to being. Just saying is all....LOL
As a side note, I noticed that none of the frocated words show as being correct on the spell checker. :D
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Hi Klaatu,
Let's be even more frank, a skirt's a skirt and trousers are what they are.
The variety of titles and names for both is just semantic.
Steve.
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You are absolutely right.. That was my point. Basically, skirts are not one legged pants... pants are two legged skirts... get the point...As I said, skirts did come first!!! LOL
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Post by gorcee »

The proper term is "unbifurcated", where "bifurcation" refers to a split into two parts.
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