Is the following statement true?

[Vulcan Princess]

Can you imagine how comfortable a kilt would be? If I could get away with it, I'd wear one every day.

I find skirts to be inconvenient and uncomfortable. They're always getting in the way, and they're way more trouble than they're worth. Tons of guys I know say that they think kilts would be comfortable, though. I wonder if it's a manifestation of the grass being greener on the other side.

 

[Kestra]

^^^ I find skirts ridiculously comfortable and love wearing them (for the most part), but it's a pain to be conscious of being proper all the time.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I think that dresses and skirts are more comfortable than trousers. However because I have bad ankles I have to wear boots to get the support I need and don't think most dresses and skirts look good with the boots I have to wear.


John Barrowman

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Let's just admit that kilts are sort of like the chopsticks of the fashion world. We've seen the knife and fork, we know it's better, but we just don't want to admit how wrong we once were.

See, I totally disagree.

This is one area where the Double Standard works against men instead of for them.

A woman can wear a 3 piece suit and be "fashionable". A man wears a skirt and he's a transvestite.

Can you imagine how comfortable a kilt would be? If I could get away with it, I'd wear one every day.

Yeah but in pants you can go free-ballin any time you want.

With a kilt? Not so much.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Yes, you can.

In fact, in many military regiments, soldiers are not permitted to wear underwear with their kilts.

And John Barrowman says he doesn't wear undies with his kilt.


Tom Gold, lead dancer for the New York ballet

 

[WillsBabe]

John Barrowman

Is that him off to get married?

My first thought on this was: no. Then my mind's eye drifted to the usual suspects and I think they'd look even hotter in kilts. So, I voted yes. Then I started thinking of all those fat British men with their appalling beer bellies and I thought no. Still, kilts are very often hot (and a little naff on non-Scots, I feel).

 

[Miss Chicken]

My first thought on this was: no. Then my mind's eye drifted to the usual suspects and I think they'd look even hotter in kilts. So, I voted yes. Then I started thinking of all those fat British men with their appalling beer bellies and I thought no. Still, kilts are very often hot (and a little naff on non-Scots, I feel).

My opinion is that those fat British men with their beer bellies look even worse with their bellies hanging over their trousers then they would in kilts,

Also such men often wear their trousers at half-mast which is absolutely gross.

Is that him off to get married?

Yes, this is him about to be married. His husband Scott didn't wear a kilt.

Though he was born in Scotland, John Barrowman grew up in the USA. He invited a girl to the prom but she refused to go with him when he turned up in a kilt.

James Doohan in a kilt

 

[Kibbin]

See I think they look comfy and whatnot but non-scots wearing a traditional kilt looks a bit pretentious, maybe I’d wear one of those utilikilts mentioned above

 

[Miss Chicken]

See I think they look comfy and whatnot but non-scots wearing a traditional kilt looks a bit pretentious, maybe I’d wear one of those utilikilts mentioned above

What about a kilt like Gerard Butler is wearing in this photo

 

[Orac Zen]

Depends on the legs really.

Agreed.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Well, since women look good in skirts, I suppose the reverse is also true, so I'll say "yes."

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I know it's a cultural thing, but I don't think the white kilts (foustanella) and bobble shoes (tsarouchia) of the Greek Evzones is an attractive look.

http://www.athensinfoguide.com/wtsevzones.htm

Don't tell them that to their faces though.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I like the Greek kilts but I can't say the shows do anything for me.


Next man up is Billy Boyd

 

[iguana_tonante]

I find my kilt very comfortable to wear. I suppose women's skirts can be uncomfortable when they are tight, but kilts allow for great legs' movements. Unfortunately, being in Italy, I don't have many opportunities to wear it.

As an addendum, I do agree that traditional kilts look a bit daft on non-Scots, but on the other hand I love them and I think they look good, so I gladly allow for being a bit daft sometimes.

 

[1001001]

^^^ I find skirts ridiculously comfortable and love wearing them (for the most part), but it's a pain to be conscious of being proper all the time.

I would not be burdened with such concerns...

 

[Deckerd]

What about a kilt like Gerard Butler is wearing in this photo

That's not a kilt, that's a skirt.

As a Scot I can say with experience that the OP statement is most definitely not true. There are plenty of men who should never show their legs.

 

[Deckerd]

Technically, a kilt should look like this:

There was an equal amount of cloth carried over the shoulder (usually pinned there), for use during bad weather and for sleeping rough, where it was used to wrap up in like a blanket.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Gerry does. *fanning myself*

The legs have to be good and sturdy. Among other things....

 

[Deckerd]

That, too, is a skirt. Big jessie.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

That, too, is a skirt. Big jessie.

The pink pullover doesn't help.