It’s A Kilt
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DrFishnets
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Re: It’s A Kilt
As I mentioned on this very forum a while ago I bumped into a female friend whilst shopping in my local Tesco supermarket wearing a kilt. She mentioned that she liked my skirt then quickly corrected herself and said kilt. To be honest I found it a compliment and was flattered she called my kilt a skirt which realistically a kilt is anyway.
My name is Arty. I’m a guy with a passion for wearing skirts, dresses and tights and a hobbiest musician and artist. 
Re: It’s A Kilt
When a man wears a skirt which is presumed by other people to be a kilt, he is largely immune from being thought a crossdresser, trans or gay.
I personally feel more comfortable and confident if I believe people assume that I am wearing a kilt. To help this along everything else that I wear is thoroughly masculine and in cooler weather I wear black turnover top socks and sometimes even flashes. I do this especially when I am wearing an actual skirt, such as one by Skirtcraft or an all round pleated tartan skirt bought off Amazon for C$18. Which is one of the most comfortable items of clothing that I own. Very lightweight, though a little prone to lift in the wind. It did this morning, luckily only for a second and in a quiet part of the dog park. That's a very strange sensation and somewhat disquieting even with only my dogs to see it.
People should do what makes them happy. But I am not sure it helps the cause of making skirts acceptable for men if it or its accessories appear too feminine. I think there is then the danger of cementing in people's minds the idea that a man in a skirt is either gay, trans or wearing drag. Therefore concluding that skirts are not for normal men.
I think this sentiment is likely to be held by women whose husbands either do or want to wear skirts. No wife wants her man, her protector and provider to be turning trans or gay. When my late wife was alive, for the nearly fifty years we were together, I frequently wore a kilt and a man's nightshirt. But I would never have risked a skirt or a nightgown.
I personally feel more comfortable and confident if I believe people assume that I am wearing a kilt. To help this along everything else that I wear is thoroughly masculine and in cooler weather I wear black turnover top socks and sometimes even flashes. I do this especially when I am wearing an actual skirt, such as one by Skirtcraft or an all round pleated tartan skirt bought off Amazon for C$18. Which is one of the most comfortable items of clothing that I own. Very lightweight, though a little prone to lift in the wind. It did this morning, luckily only for a second and in a quiet part of the dog park. That's a very strange sensation and somewhat disquieting even with only my dogs to see it.
People should do what makes them happy. But I am not sure it helps the cause of making skirts acceptable for men if it or its accessories appear too feminine. I think there is then the danger of cementing in people's minds the idea that a man in a skirt is either gay, trans or wearing drag. Therefore concluding that skirts are not for normal men.
I think this sentiment is likely to be held by women whose husbands either do or want to wear skirts. No wife wants her man, her protector and provider to be turning trans or gay. When my late wife was alive, for the nearly fifty years we were together, I frequently wore a kilt and a man's nightshirt. But I would never have risked a skirt or a nightgown.