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[cessna152towser]

My wife has limited mobility and I suggested to her that she might find that a skirt would be easier to put on and take off than trousers. I gave her a demonstration with the Midas Leisure Kilt which I am wearing around the house today - two squares of velcro and two plastic clips and it is wrapped/unwrapped around the waist.

She replied that if she wore one of those people would see she was wearing a gents garment.

[DavidsSkirts]

If you have a look in some of the 'outdoorsy' and 'travel' clothing catalogues and websites you will find womens skirts with similar fastenings on them...

For example, I have a ('womens'..) Sierra Designs wrap' skirt that fastens with a couple of Velcro tabs, that I bought online from REI {had a look at their current line-up today, but didn't see it this time, but you could check companies like REI to find various brands - and then check their own home websites to see their current seasons styles..}..

"There's always more than one way to skin a cat".

[Dennis A Lederl]

They do make kilts for women. They fasten on the left instead of the right. Which makes them a woman's kilt.
Simply!
And kilts last longer then most skirts.
Dennis

[Departed Member]

They do make kilts for women. They fasten on the left instead of the right. Which makes them a woman's kilt.
Simply!

Oh, Dennis, how could you! The world will end before you could put the words, "woman's" and "kilt" together like that! The highlanders are already on their way - you'd better lock the doors to your underground bunker!

[sapphire]

Errr......
I've made kilts for myself in the past and plan some for the future.

[Departed Member]

Errr......
I've made kilts for myself in the past and plan some for the future.

Mmnn, don't you really, really mean, "kilted skirts"? Pretty please?

[Bri]

I told my gf that I wore some leggings from gap (ebay) out to take the dog to go poo and pee, and told her they were really nice and I think I have the legs for them. She's also a bit on PMS but denying it of course. We had a funny conversation on the phone last night which revolved around a different message board, but she was getting to the point of girls were better and bla bla bla.
A few private messages sent on that message board.


Me: "so i wore my gap black leggings out today taking cura to poo which he just peed and walking around, they're really nice, and i do think i have the legs for them."

Her: "I am worried that you like wearing skirts like you do, it's not very normal. "

Me: "are those the hormones talking?"

Her: "No it's not it's girlfriend talking! (and an emoticon with a very strange look on it's face like this one "

[Pythos]

BAIL!!!!!
EJECT. EJECT!


Unless you can work the logic of "It was once not normal for women to wear trousers" then it is time to get out of this possibly disastorous relation ship.

Or better yet, get her on this site, and have her chat with others here.

[SkirtDude]

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[Bri]

I found out later that it was a bit of PMS combined with sleep deprovation. I'm going to order this Harveys camo messenger bag (green camo) because of all the stuff I have to carry around. My gf actually likes it and thinks it's a nice masculine color.

I also talked to her about skirts yesterday, and the ones that I bought from various places and I was on the webcam with her, she was wearing the denim mini skirt that I gave her as a gift. She thinks I look sexy in it, and the other skirts I have, but I'm going have to have a talk with her about accepting me in a skirt all the time reguardless of how much sleep she has or what her hormones are doing at the time. It's either you accept me all the time or none of the time.

One of the main reasons she likes me so much (and I her) is because I'm very different from everyone she's ever dated. That's something I'm going to bring up is that since I'm different, expect me to do different things and have ideas you've never thought of. Or thought of but never admitted to.


She likes me in the tennis skirt and denim mini, 3/4 length, and knee length because of course (as this forum has stated many times) they look more masculine and could be confused as shorts if not looked at for long enough.

[Sasquatch]

Not meaning any offense, Bri, but I think we men too often tend to blame differences of opinion we have with our significant (female) others on their cycles. That's a bit sexist and only partly accurate, biologically speaking. No question that moods are affected by hormonal swings - most women concede that point - but there are other inherent physiological differences including neural connections in the cerebral cortex. Women have four times as many as men, and that significantly speeds the processing of information, though not necessarily leading to the same conclusion a man might reach after a period of contemplation. It does alter the response time during debate/conversation, and that communication difference sometimes leads to further misunderstanding.

Also, a wise man should never issue an ultimatum to his SO unless he is fully prepared to accept the non-preferred answer.

Just speaking from experience.
Sasq

[Bri]

This is so funny to hear that women have 4 times the amount of connections in their brains, yet it really doesn't seem to do much with society (damn them being held back by themselves and others). I would rather talk it over with her than say "you accept this or else".

The connections thing though could explain why guys have to go off and think about something for a while and women say "ok, I'll take it" and well even though I haven't had the experience from knowing that kind of statement well and comparing it to the outcome that I've had when saying "I'll think about it". Maybe they're a bit faster and it makes them more practical, I don't know, but I wish I did. Maybe Saphire can help on this one.

[iain]

Every girlfriend I've had has been accepting about skirts when it's just the two of us. It's the reaction of the world they worry about: since they're seen as a partner of a guy, if the guy seems different, then their image also will be caught up in that assumption.

Women often don't dress to impress men, they dress to impress other women as to their standing; if their number one accessory, a guy, is really unusual, then a woman is going to have to think very hard about how it makes her look.

So if you already have friends who accept you, it makes sense to widen the circle of you and your s/o such that she's aware of it. If she is the only person in your whole world who is being asked to accept a very unusual fashion choice, she might well wonder why!

It would be almost as if a guy's asking her to provide all the acceptance that he worries the rest of the world won't give or that he won't give himself. So while it seems she's undermining his confidence, it's really him who is maintaining that lack of confidence, so she is really having to prop him up, which won't appeal to a woman.

And if that's the case, then his attitude about the rest of the world is more likely to rub off on her, giving her the same worries he has!

[Bri]

good point. Not something I thought too much about, but I'll try to get others on my side, if that's the way I understand what you're saying.

[crfriend]

[A] wise man should never issue an ultimatum to his SO unless he is fully prepared to accept the non-preferred answer.

Wise men seldom issue ultimatums unless the time for rational negotiation is already past. It's an act of desperation mainly, and should be avoided by recognising problems early on. By time time it's appropriate to issue one, the die is usually cast, and the wise already know the outcome (i.e. "It's time to look out after Number One.").