# Hey ladies: what do you think about kilts?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 31, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719 "2016-01-31T01:16:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/1 "2016-01-31T01:16:20Z")
I was going to make this a poll, but thought I might cause an influence in positions with my poll choices.
So, in a free format, what do you think about kilts on men?
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/2 "2016-01-31T01:19:33Z")
Depends on the kilt, depends on the guy wearing it.
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/3 "2016-01-31T01:28:42Z")
From a website I was looking at recently:
“I can’t stand a good-looking Scotsman in a kilt - said no woman ever.”
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/4 "2016-01-31T01:37:07Z")
I don’t object to them. I don’t find them an automatic turn-on, either. The traditional turn-down stockings that go with them are unflattering on everyone.
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### Author:  [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/5 "2016-01-31T01:41:33Z")
Most look bad, but when they look good, they look very, very good. There’s the urge running a hand up the thigh.
As an aside, I have no idea how men don’t run their hand up the thigh of women in skirts all the time. Well, there’s jail of course.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/6 "2016-01-31T01:42:39Z")
Ladies I know indicate that kilts are a fine thing, unless they are the dreaded UtiliKilt[sup]TM[/sup].
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### Author:  [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/7 "2016-01-31T01:52:37Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> Depends on the kilt, depends on the guy wearing it.
Yep.
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### Author:  [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/8 "2016-01-31T02:03:45Z")
What **Guinastasia** and **MoonMoon** said.
I have seen guys in kilts who were hot.
And then there was the guy in the grocery store who was most emphatically not.
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### Author:  [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/9 "2016-01-31T02:07:40Z")
[I’d hire them](http://meninkilts.com/wp-content/uploads/freshizer/30599a2e49a7ecff8561686668ac32fe_Calgary-Cropped-1156-577-c.png).
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### Author:  [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/10 "2016-01-31T02:20:39Z")
Not a fan. If you are not (a) playing bagpipes or (b) marching with your regiment, just don’t.
(Okay, I guess a lot of women find them attractive. Here’s one who doesn’t. And if I see(a) I will run the other way with my hands over my ears.)
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/11 "2016-01-31T02:24:20Z")
It’s like any other clothing a man might wear. A kilt is OK if the guy wearing it is.
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### Author:  [@F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.Pu-du-he-pa-as)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/12 "2016-01-31T02:29:31Z")
One of my friends has one or more kilts, and I think they are awesome on him. Not sure how I would feel about kilts on anyone else.
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/13 "2016-01-31T03:00:02Z")
In general, I like them and would like to see more men wearing them. I like variety.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/14 "2016-01-31T03:08:02Z")
Rowr. Very much a fan of a good-looking man in a kilt.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/15 "2016-01-31T03:08:43Z")
Most of the men I see in kilts are gay, so I sort of assume a guy in a kilt is gay unless he has some obvious reason to wear one. Or I happen to know he is straight.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/16 "2016-01-31T03:12:21Z")
[Ahem.](http://happyeverafter.usatoday.com/2015/04/03/suzanne-enoch-men-in-kilts-outlander/)
Yes, **Sattua**. I did it. You knew I was going to.
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/17 "2016-01-31T03:20:41Z")
> [@ivylass](#):
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> [Ahem.](http://happyeverafter.usatoday.com/2015/04/03/suzanne-enoch-men-in-kilts-outlander/)
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> Yes, **Sattua**. I did it. You knew I was going to.
I’d like to note that they skipped the turn-down stocking and slipper look for the show, in favor of a questionably historic but unquestionably more attractive high boot.
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### Author:  [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/18 "2016-01-31T03:40:22Z")
Nope. Not a good look. Even on a good looking man. My opinion may be colored by knowing a lot of guys who wear kilts and finding it to be sort of an unattractive nerdish affectation for most of them. Still like the guys, but its odd - I don’t go running around in a drindl
If you need to wear one to march in your pipe band, go for it. But its costuming. Not clothing. Not even in Scotland anymore.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/19 "2016-01-31T04:00:16Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#):
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> Nope. Not a good look. Even on a good looking man. My opinion may be colored by knowing a lot of guys who wear kilts and finding it to be sort of an unattractive nerdish affectation for most of them. Still like the guys, but its odd - I don’t go running around in a drindl
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> If you need to wear one to march in your pipe band, go for it. But its costuming. Not clothing. Not even in Scotland anymore.
How about on weddings, funerals, or on Robbie Burns day?
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2016, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-ladies-what-do-you-think-about-kilts/744719/20 "2016-01-31T04:03:09Z")
I’ve yet to see one that didn’t make a man look goofier than he’d look in pants.
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