Men in skirts links

General discussion of skirt and kilt-based fashion for men, and stuff that goes with skirts and kilts.
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I list my skirted experience at http://skirtedwalker.com
I am working on an overall summary page of the couple dozen skirts, kilts, and dresses I’ve tried.

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I am looking forward to reading the expanded listing, with perhaps full body shots and walking partners/groups to provide a better sense of their utility and normalcy. The limited selection and emphasis on brand in the link tends to look like a paid endorsement.
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Faldaguy wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 6:45 amI am looking forward to reading the expanded listing, with perhaps full body shots and walking partners/groups to provide a better sense of their utility and normalcy. The limited selection and emphasis on brand in the link tends to look like a paid endorsement.
No paid endorsement - 16 years of searching, purchasing, and wearing practical skirts and dresses. I paid instead - quite a bit in some cases. I publish the list of all the skirts and dresses I’ve tried for hiking, backpacking, working, driving, leisure, etc. As far as normalcy, see my post about a day wearing my skirt about town.
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Several men with blogs are hiking the Appalachian Trail in Purple Rain kilts and Sport Kilts this year. Here’s one example of a hiker in the Sport Kilt.
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Fred in Skirts wrote: Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:10 pm
Grok wrote:When I try the link for Canadian Casual Kilts, I get the message "Safari can't find the server".
When I try it I get a search page with suggestions for skirts and kilts. I think they have gone toes up. :(
In Canada look under Affordable Kilts or Kilts for every budget. based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Lower priced Kilts for 100.00 Canadian, upper priced Kilts at 150.00 Canadian.
Damn I sound like a commercial. I have bought one of the lower priced Kilts looks good wears well so far.
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SkirtedWalker wrote: Sat Jun 24, 2023 2:16 pm
Faldaguy wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 6:45 amI am looking forward to reading the expanded listing, with perhaps full body shots and walking partners/groups to provide a better sense of their utility and normalcy. The limited selection and emphasis on brand in the link tends to look like a paid endorsement.
No paid endorsement - 16 years of searching, purchasing, and wearing practical skirts and dresses. I paid instead - quite a bit in some cases. I publish the list of all the skirts and dresses I’ve tried for hiking, backpacking, working, driving, leisure, etc. As far as normalcy, see my post about a day wearing my skirt about town.
Thanks for this link, it is great full of great resources. I know I love my Sport Kilt for hiking and running and tend to go with the women's length for comfort on the trail.
"Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool."
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At this point the automated system for Macabi seems to be functioning okay. I just ordered another of the (original) Macabi, in terra cotta color. Perhaps certain colors were lagging in popularity, while other colors are deemed viable.
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The Union Kilt link now leads to web site that sells Irish rings.
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Grok wrote: Thu Dec 14, 2023 1:21 am The Union Kilt link now leads to web site that sells Irish rings.
That’s sad. 😔 During the pandemic I bought a black denim utility kilt in the closing down sale. At the time , the owner said he’d sold the business. Clearly it never got off the ground again.
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This has a lot of good advice

https://everybodyskirts.com
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That's an interesting link that Steamman posted. I don't think I want to sign up and give my email to a forum I know nothing about but I enjoyed their section on what has to be done to normalize skirts for men.
Call them kilts is probably the best advice. I would also go along with making it as masculine and normal looking as possible. Yes, as well within the Man Box as a skirt can be and without feminizing the look.
I loved the suggestion that boys should wear skirts from birth right through school age. So every parent in the Western world would have to dress their sons in skirts. Good luck with that one.
Though it used to be so. My Grandfather was a boy in the 1870s and there was a picture of him wearing a dress, taken when he was six years old. And that was more or less normal for the time. My boyhood was in the 1940s and the practice had died out by then. Though my dad apparently wore a dress until he turned two in 1916. And his young brother, born 1924 after five girls, wore dresses until he was about four. Though that was probably to save money and use up the hand me downs. It didn't seem to do him any harm. He served with distinction in WW2. Neither he nor my grandfather showed any sign of wanting to wear skirts as a man. Grandfather was Scottish too, though I never saw him in a kilt. But he did encourage me to wear mine. So he had nothing against them.

This morning I saw a YouTube video of a lot of Muslims parading through a town. Many of the men and boys were wearing Muslim robes. Thobes I think they call them. And it was quite apparent that they didn't allow the wearer to take a full stride. The boys particularly seemed to be wearing hobble skirts. It is possible to normalize masculine skirts in some communities, just like at any highland event. So there could be hope, but how to bring it about is the big question. Any ideas anybody?
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Clicked on the link for Union Kilts. Got something selling jewelry.
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Grok wrote: Wed Oct 08, 2025 2:52 pm Clicked on the link for Union Kilts. Got something selling jewelry.
Union Kilts is gone. Owner shut the company down a while back. I have a couple denim kilts from them. Sorry to see the company is no longer in business.
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