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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/fas ... le2167593/
An overall positive article from a fashion expert on a Canadian newspaper.
Its encouraging that the kilt is seen as a casual garment for everday wear.
Note the sentence:-

There has been a revival of male skirts as everyday wear in the past decade.....

though seemingly canvas kilts and big cargo pockets are less favoured in the article.

I rather liked the poll at the end of the article:

When is it appropriate for a man to wear a kilt?
The proffered choices were:

a) At a wedding or other formal event
b) Whenever he wants to
c) On Robbie Burns Day
d) Never. Nowadays it's just silly

Current scores:
a) 26% - 55 votes
b) 58% - 124 votes
c) 4% -9 votes
d) 11% - 24 votes

I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions.

Have fun,


Ian.

Talking about polls - some of you will have seen this one but some might not have - It too is very interesting:-

http://fashion.about.com/b/2009/03/27/m ... derful.htm

It's Hot - I like a man in a skirt! 118332 (72.1%)

I'm Indifferent -> men should wear what they want 44948 (27.4%)

It's weird - put some pants on! 956 (0.05%)

Speaks for itself!

skirtingtoday

In the poll, more than 160,000 people were favourable to men wearing skirts, while fewer than 1,000 were against it. That's a phenomenal level of support - especially from an audience of mainly women!

Stu

Stu wrote:skirtingtoday

In the poll, more than 160,000 people were favourable to men wearing skirts, while fewer than 1,000 were against it. That's a phenomenal level of support - especially from an audience of mainly women!

Stu

I wonder how that would have changed if the question had asked about "your man wearing a skirt".

Have fun,


Ian.

Stu wrote:skirtingtoday

In the poll, more than 160,000 people were favourable to men wearing skirts, while fewer than 1,000 were against it. That's a phenomenal level of support - especially from an audience of mainly women!

Stu

"especially" - you mean you think men would have been even more supportive? Somehow I doubt it!

I was at the local animal shelter the day before yesterday. There were 9 women gathered in the car park there. When I got out of my vehicle (wearing a black leather skirt) I was bombarded with nothing but favorable comments. The majority of these women thought that a man in a skirt was very sexy, several told me so. Two of them even said that they were going to suggest to their husband / boyfriend that they wear a skirt. This is one of the few instances where I think people even noticed or commented so far. I am new to this (wearing skirts) but I haven't worn a pair of trousers for over 30 days now, and I may never do so again.

Good on you, Dale, but I notice your stomping ground is New Mexico, where presumably even at this time of year wearing a skirt wouldn't freeze the goolies off you.

Tom K.

Yes, it is cold in New Mexico right now. The days are not to bad however. For me this is a bit of a trade off. I fell of a cliff on Halloween of 1992. I have never found a pair of trousers comfortable since then. Uncomfortable at best, outright painful at worst. Wearing a skirt equals no pain, that is a big factor as to why I have embraced the wearing of a skirt so completely and quickly. I am the most comfortable I have been in 18 or 19 years, even with the cold. When I was a child living with my grandfather in Scotland, I remember that it was none to warm there at this time of year either, but I still wore a kilt.

Hi Dale,
Now I understand that there is the Braveheart bred into you. A rescue helicopter has just airlifted five hillwalkers out of the Cairngorms where yesterday a gust reached 165 MPH during a particularly fierce storm that left 80,000 homes without electricity and closed schools up & down the country (Scotland).

Definitely not kilt wearing weather. I remember driving through the highlands in August and noted that snow still lingered high up on North facing slopes even then. BRRRRHH!!!

'Down' here in Ireland it's a crisp frosty full-moonlit night with several planets very observable in the un-light-polluted sky, and we're planning a 'Twelfth night' party for Jan. 6th. I'm going to be one of the eleven 'Pipers piping', wearing a kilt & lowland Potain jacket &c......

Tom K.

When I read it the poll on choice B "whenever he wants to" had risen to over 450 votes.

When I checked today choice B "Whenever he want to" was at 461 votes. Personally I would have added another choice, "Nearly always". I now wear a skirt everywhere I go public or private.

It's a braw bricht....,oh no, it's raining now. Still, better than the flying garages we had2 days ago. Still, the garage roof was moved and today my phone line got rebuilt. I am used to rain! Flying garages are slightly less common.

Big and Bashful wrote:Still, the garage roof was moved and today my phone line got rebuilt. I am used to rain! Flying garages are slightly less common.

OK, good, B&B, as you were one of the ones I'd been worrying about given what I'd heard of the weather in your part of the world. I'm still waiting on hearing from some of the other Scots in the community, but I am happy that you are OK!

Big and Bashful wrote:It's a braw bricht....,oh no, it's raining now. Still, better than the flying garages we had2 days ago. Still, the garage roof was moved and today my phone line got rebuilt. I am used to rain! Flying garages are slightly less common.

Hope that boat of yours was well moored. Winds like that can cause immense damage even in harbour.

Have fun,


Ian.