Box pleats, knife pleats and setts, oh my! My only question: Why aren't you wearing one?
Kilts are hot.
Ask any woman who's ever heard of them, and the chances are good that she'll concur this point to some emphasis, at least if she's of even a minute Celtic persuasion. We like kilts. We love them even. Kilts conjure up images of warriors, of highlanders. It takes a real man to wear a kilt.
So why are kilts in such utter disfavor with the manly persuasion, I ask you?
Dress like garments, after all. are far more the norm in history than the exception. I suspect this was for their ease and convenience as much as anything and personally, like capes, I find it something that should never have passed from the consciousness of fashion. Long, druidy robes with hoods add a certain mystique that, sorry, hoodies and sweats simply cannot equal. Ditto dockers and anything Ralph Lauren. Kilts though bespeak a mystique all their own.
You want comfort? Convenience? A place to hide your sword?
All I'm sayin'.
In wondering initially whether I was alone in my adoration of the humble manskirt, I did what any warm-blooded shetype could be expected to do at 4 AM when all of her sisters were sleeping - I googled it. And Lo, are there ever a plethora of other feminine admirers and yearners for the kilt to return. WItness:
Celtic Kate's fabulous Men In Kilts website devoted entirely to the men who wear them and look fabulous in doing so;
Real Men Wear Kilts, in case you thought me somehow unique in my unabashed kilt covetousness;
Heck, even Flicker has an entire section devoted to Men in Kilts.
Kilts. Not just for the Scottish and RPG sort anymore.
Please?
