Sighting

[Stu]

Today, and approximately 12.30pm in Marks and Spencers store, Doncaster, Yorks, I saw a man aged around 30-35 wearing a blue and white coarse, camouflage style, pleated skirt standing in a food queue. He was well over six feet tall and had on a heavy black jacket with red lettering on the back. It was cold today and I was quite surprised to see a bare pair of legs!! There was a woman roughly his age and standing close enough to him for me to assume they were together. I watched him for a moment or two - he got a couple of double-takes, but nothing more than that.

Doncaster is a tough, former coal mining town and if a man can get away with wearing that in such a town, then he can do it anywhere.

Stu

[staticsan]

Could have been a kilt, although it could be argued a kilt is a kind of skirt.

I have a kilt in white and grey camouflage print that I bought from Neokilt. I love it, but don't wear it much because there ain't so many places I can wear a kilt or skirt.

Wade.

[Stu]

Wade

because there ain't so many places I can wear a kilt or skirt.

Why?

What will happen to you if you wear a kilt or denim skirt?

Stu

[Charlie]

On the mid-day news yesterday (BBC1, Friday 21st Dec) there was a reporter on York station. He was talking away, when a guy in a skirt walked past. It only a couple of seconds. I've got Sky+, so was able to back up and freeze the picture. He had white socks with what appeared to be flashes, so it is probable that he was wearing a kilt. There was no discernable pattern or tartan. The reporter was there again in the evening and they had a longer view of the platform. No kilts this time though

Charlie

[GerdG]

I love it, but don't wear it much because there ain't so many places I can wear a kilt or skirt.

Well, i should rather say that there probably are rather few places, where you cannont wear a kilt or an appropriate skirt?

Greg

[Stu]

Well, i should rather say that there probably are rather few places, where you cannont wear a kilt or an appropriate skirt?

Gerd

That's certainly the case here in the UK. I take it the same can be said for Denmark, too? I'm curious because I'm moving to DK in July.

Stu

[DavidsSkirts]

By the tone of Wade's complaint above, I suppose we could assume he lives in one of the more backward, redneck and uptight corners of the good ol' US of A?
As others have mentioned - there aren't that many places where one can't wear a skirt or kilt...
Or maybe it's the company he keeps..

[staticsan]

By the tone of Wade's complaint above, I suppose we could assume he lives in one of the more backward, redneck and uptight corners of the good ol' US of A?
As others have mentioned - there aren't that many places where one can't wear a skirt or kilt...
Or maybe it's the company he keeps..

'Tis a companion thing rather than an environ thing. I'm in southern Sydney, AU. But my folks don't like my kilts, and my work don't like my kilts. :-/ Kinda leaves precious few places when you add that together, unfortunately.

I happily wore kilts on a holiday to the US. It was very amusing to be in Penn Plaza, NYC, watching a coloured man trying to be as inoffensive as possible whilst asking if I was wearing an "Irish kilt". (I was not offended in the least and the conversation was most pleasant.)

Wade.

[DavidsSkirts]

Sydney !!
That figures..
I try and avoid that place whenever I can - once you cross the Hawkesbury you could be in another country - and you have a lot of people down there whose whole world seems to be confined by the Hawkesbury and Cook Rivers, and the Blue Mountains...

Fancy family members being anti-kilts, when around 70% of Aussie-born "natives" can find some Irish and/or Scottish somewhere amongst their ancestry..

I don't doubt that if you got away from your present company you could travel around most of Sydney 'skirted' without any problems or hassles - though there are always some corners of Sydney, up here around Newcastle, and most bigger city areas - where I would always watch my back [or avoid altogether - as anywhere you travel in the world..] whether I were in pants or skirts.

[Sarongman]

It is true about Sydney. A more redneck, intolerant city would be hard to find. I'm sorry to bring religion into it but, the two main denominations are highly, agressively conservative. Catholicism under Cardinal Pell is anti everything and as for the conservative evangelicals in the Anglican side, well!!! When I was in college in Morpeth, the Hawkesbury bridge was known as "Checkpoint Chasuble" as that vestment is totally banned in that Diocese as being an item of hated "popery". Do the religions follow the tenor of the city or the other way round?

I remember being laughed at at the markets in Eumundi Qld. by a well dressed group who thought my sarong was extremely funny. When I saw their car, it had N.S.W. number plates and a Sydnet dealer's frame. Enough said

[skirts4me]

My recollection is that there are two Anglican parishes in the Sydney diocese. Can't answer for Christ Church, but we did have chasubles at St James on festival occasions in 1974.

As to wearing skirts in that place I'd just go ahead and do it. If you're working in a place where you have no public contact then it's actually illegal to discriminate against a man wearing a skirt if the women are allowed to wear them. The Australian sexual discrimination act is stronger then most in that regard.

[ChrisM]

Wow! I didn't know that about Sydney. I have worn kilt skirts (tartan plaid skirts) around Sydney with no adverse reaction. Indeed, the only two overt reactions have been: Cute Japanese tourist asked to have her photo taken with me, and a restaurateur in Leiderhosen (at the German restaurant in the Rocks) asked "What have you got under that?" (To which I replied 'probably the same thing you have under those leiderhosen.')

Chris M

[AMM]

... a restaurateur in Leiderhosen ...

I love that misspelling!

"leider" = unfortunately (as opposed to "Leder" = leather)
"Hosen" = trousers (pl.)

If I ever end up discussing men-in-skirts with my German friends, I'll have to use that one!

"Traegst Du denn Roecke?" ("Do you wear skirts?")

"Nein, Leiderhosen (leider Hosen)" ("No, unfortunately trousers.")

[staticsan]

I've worn a kilt a few times to the local Woolies. No reactions. Oh wait: one time in the snow camo Neokilt the girl serving me said she didn't know kilts came in that colour.

At work I was "asked not to" because someone was uncomfortable about it. It was put in the same context as a girl wanting to wear a miniskirt. However, I'm considering changing jobs (having been contacted in an unusual way by a recruiter), so one of the things I will be asking in the interview will be about kilt-wearing.

Wade.

[GerdG]

Well, i should rather say that there probably are rather few places, where you cannont wear a kilt or an appropriate skirt?

I take it the same can be said for Denmark, too?
Stu

Stu, most Danes are extremely tolerant, at least regarding a man in a kilt. Probably it is the same with a man in a denim skirt. Prices on real property are going down, by the way, if you intend to buy.
Happy New Year

GerdG