What do you think a sarong is?
I don’t know why, but I find men in tunics (essentially a short Man Dress) sexier then with a Man Skirt (sarong/kilt). I googled it and I can’t even find an image of a man in a contemporary tunic. Just historical/renfaire garb. Or tunics over pants, like most Muslim men that wear tunics, but that defeats the purpose. A tunic over pants combo is just a long billowy shapeless whole, while the classic tunic shows of everything yummy about a man.
But yeah, I wished they would come back in fashion.
Fabric between the legs is what stops chaffing, bare thigh against bare thigh is a recipe for disaster.
And I would end up sitting on my balls.
And you were wearing a Scottish kilt, I assume, which is made of wool. As drastic_quench pointed out, they don’t have to be tartan wool.
I wear my kilt every chance I get (in the fall and winter). It’s as comfortable as any pants I own, and the swing and sway of the wool around my knees makes me feel like I’ve grown three inches taller - I put it on and suddenly I’m William Wallace in Braveheart. Ignoring, of course, that in real life Wallace would have thought the philabeg was the uncivilized dress of those Irish-speaking, primitive, savage Highlanders.
There are a few men around my neighborhood who sport Utilikilts - enough that it is not really a novelty. Sort of the dress equivalent of a Smartcar.
I’ve never had any of those problems and I hike quite a bit even in the heat. In fact, wouldn’t thigh on thigh action lead to more chafing than having cloth separating them? Sexual advantages? Seriously?
I would typically spend between $20-50 for a pair of pants I would use for hiking or performing physical labor which is a bit cheaper than the kilts I saw for the same thing. Pants also provide my legs with protection from minor scrapes, scratches and insect bites.
I just came back from Renaissance Faire, which naturally has a grand selection of kilt-clad men and women. My ex, who does security and medical and thus is running during the whole weekend, said he was glad he decided to dress Scottish rather than English. I’m sure the selection of materials of the pants has something to do with it. It was 95+ the whole weekend, cooler than past years that have often 100-115.
I approve of men in any sort of kilt / skirt.
ETA: In the comic I’m writing, kilts ARE a mainstay of men’s fashion. And people wear suits. I love being god.
Somewhat, and only when dry. Damp, sweat-soak fabric acts as an abrasive. Skin on skin is not frictionless, but moreso than cloth. Then there’s products like Bodyglide - which works better with skin on skin friction. But that’s really only for long distance runners and hikers.
Thank God!
My husband has, as he calls them, meaty Scottish Highlander legs. He’s got the legs, and a Scottish name he can point to when people ask him why the hell he’s in a kilt, so there’s really no reason not to do it! I think it would be attractive as hell, but he won’t listen to me. 
I’ve got a utilikilt and I love it. It is breezy enough to keep me from chafing, and plenty tough enough to endure physical work. They are expensive because they are made from quality fabrics and good construction. Additionally, with the “modestly flap” I can ride my motorcycle without causing accidents.
I’m not opposed to looser gender roles in clothing, but I don’t really see a practical advantage to kilts.
I mean, given what my underwear ends up like after a sweaty day, I wouldn’t go commando for more than a day in anything other than an emergency. And a kilt with underwear doesn’t really have much practical advantage over shorts, does it?
Are you all wearing your kilt without underwear in hot sweaty weather? How many days do you get out of it before it starts standing up by itself?
I mean, I like the idea, but I need a little more convincing.
I was at my cousin’s wedding in Scotland a couple of weeks back and half the men were wearing kilts. And very fetching they looked too. Amused the hell out of my Swedish girlfriend, that had never seen a man in a skirt before, too. Unfortunately, despite being half-Scot I could never wear one. Not that I don’t want to, but my English upbringing and accent would mean that some of the more nationalist members of my extended family would “have words”.
Believe me, we’ve already had the arguments about my nationality. I almost want Scotland to go independent so I could apply for a passport just to annoy them.
I’m tall and have skinny (but well developed) legs. Can I pull off a kilt, or does one need to be meaty and built low to the ground to really make it happen?
Edit: Utilikilt or a running/hiking kilt. Not a traditional kilt.
When there is constant air circulation down there, the sweating and stink is greatly reduced in general. In hot weather, ( I live in south florida), I can get five days out of lightweight kilt if I’m not working physically. With work, maybe 3; which is better than shorts which usually max out at 2. Sarongs can go longer.
Kilts rule. If they didn’t stand out so much and cost so much, I’d rock a kilt.
It’s been a day and I’m still having difficulty figuring this one out. I find it to be a bizarre statement, so I’ve circled back just to ask -
¿Por qué?
Same here. Considering that there are probably close to a billion men in the world who routinely wear a sarong or dhoti or lungi or loincloth or other form of non-leg-separated ManSkirt as part of their traditional daily attire, I think it’s kind of silly that in modern, supposedly cosmopolitan western cultures the very concept of a ManSkirt should be regarded as so horrifyingly weird.
This sort of thing, for instance:
???
Now, I can certainly understand if somebody personally just doesn’t happen to like the look of kilts/ManSkirts. Or if they personally just don’t happen to like some eccentric aspects of the present-day “kilt-wearing subculture”, what there is of it.
But categorically declaring that anybody who wears a particular type of (unusual but respectable and not immodest) garment is automatically beyond the pale? In this day and age, who does that?
It’s reminiscent of the outrage manifested in the mid-19th century towards Mrs. Bloomer and her fellow pioneers in the cause of pants for women—another sartorial trend that shocked many people at the time but doesn’t raise a lot of eyebrows today.
Traditionally, the kilt was worn over a shirt made with long tails that covered the buttocks and genitals and thus served as a sort of underwear. Some shirttails could even be buttoned between the legs as a kind of precursor to boxer shorts.
Most guys I know who wear kilts say that even with underwear, they’re more comfortable and less restricting than shorts or pants. Wrapping up your crotch in one light and/or loose layer of cotton underwear would naturally be less confining than wrapping it up in underwear plus a trouser-type garment.
I wear a Scottish kilt several times a year (and have been doing so for years), and I have yet to receive a seriously negative comment about it. Sure, you always have that one guy who tries to make fun of you - but in my experience, he’s usually trying to shift the attention back onto himself. More often than not, total strangers are more apt to say ‘Hi’ to me than when in jeans and a t-shirt. And, people tend to be curious about them, so they’ll ask me some questions, share stories of their relative who was from Scotland, etc.
Though it isn’t observed as “Men’s fashion”, I can tell you that I get more compliments when rocking the kilt than the guy standing next to me with the Armani suit on.