# Men in Kilts-Your take? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 10, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512 "2007-04-10T18:19:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/101 "2007-04-15T12:41:16Z")
Scots at a formal do in Hong Kong at least wear a dinner jacket (tuxedo top) with a kilt. Looks pretty cool I have to say. Much better than your standard penguin type tuxedo. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/102 "2007-04-15T12:50:48Z")
[QUOTE=China Guy] Scots at a formal do in Hong Kong at least wear a dinner jacket (tuxedo top) with a kilt. Looks pretty cool I have to say. Much better than your standard penguin type tuxedo. [/QUOTE] [Like this?](http://www.ananova.com/images/entertainment/EwanMcGregorandwifePA270x550.jpg) (Oh lucky, LUCKY woman! Can you imagine what’s it like to be married to this gorgeous specimen of manliness?) ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/103 "2007-04-15T14:01:05Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] [Like this?](http://www.ananova.com/images/entertainment/EwanMcGregorandwifePA270x550.jpg) [/QUOTE] That’s pretty much the standard for formal events - more often with a black bowtie. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/104 "2007-04-15T15:25:24Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] [Like this?](http://www.ananova.com/images/entertainment/EwanMcGregorandwifePA270x550.jpg) [/QUOTE] For formal dress, men wear ‘doublets’ with their kilts. That one is known as the [Prince Charlie](http://tinyurl.com/ypa4fl) doublet. The other one is the [Montrose](http://www.npcshop.co.uk/images/u/vmd_a.jpg) doublet. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/105 "2007-04-15T16:37:37Z")
My brother wears a Prince Charlie, plus all the accoutrements- a lovely sporran (in fact, it looks like the same on in the above “Montrose doublet” link), sock knives, another dagger, wool socks and ghillies. Cute guy. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/106 "2007-04-15T16:38:47Z")
You know, guys can look equally good with any shirt over their kilt- most athletes I see competing in their kilts have a t-shirt or other shirt on. Mmmmmmmmmm… yummy. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/107 "2007-04-15T22:11:44Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] [Like this?](http://www.ananova.com/images/entertainment/EwanMcGregorandwifePA270x550.jpg) (Oh lucky, LUCKY woman! Can you imagine what’s it like to be married to this gorgeous specimen of manliness?) [/QUOTE] Can I imagine it? Honey, you have no idea how often I imagine it! Mmmmmmmmm… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/108 "2007-04-15T23:06:54Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Can I imagine it? Honey, you have no idea how often I imagine it! Mmmmmmmmm… 😛 [/QUOTE] Hell, if I were his wife, he’d never leave the bedroom, nor wear pants. But I’d make him leave the kilt on. ---
**Author:** ![badkittypriestess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@badkittypriestess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badkittypriestess)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/109 "2007-04-17T14:20:26Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] Not wanting to misrepresent myself, I deliberately excluded dancing. Re: length of fabric - about 8" of fabric per pleat \* 32 pleats (one for each degree of masonry, coincidence?)= 21’4" of fabric for the back. 7 yards just in folds. And why hasn’t **badkittypriestess** stopped by to tell everyone how dashing I look? ☹ [/QUOTE] ppppbbbbllllttt! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lagavulin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@Lagavulin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lagavulin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/110 "2007-04-17T16:03:06Z")
Love it! Lucky me I live in Scotland, and part of my job is performing civil weddings, so I get to see LOTS of men in kilts! My husband and his pals all wore kilts at our wedding, so the photos were a great hit with my friends and family back home in Texas (apart from my elderly small-town-living aunt’s care assistant who wanted to know why the men were wearing skirts…). ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/111 "2007-04-17T19:10:10Z")
[Here 😃](http://sporranclan.typepad.com/sporran_clan_log/kilt_tips_/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/112 "2007-04-17T19:54:13Z")
I guess kilts aren’t really popular with the young people of America because it looks really silly trying to wear one hanging low over your butt. Try busting a sag in a kilt and everybody will be busting out laughing. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/113 "2007-04-17T21:06:30Z")
My buddy Gustav wears nothing but Utilikilts — used to work for 'em — and the women **love**'em. We were out in NY one week and as usual as not, the girls all ask the typical question. Which he’s sick of. So he’s adopted a standard, “Show me yours and I’ll show you mine” reply. And I’ll be damned if it doesn’t work. I admire the hell out of him, but I don’t think I could pull it off. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/114 "2007-04-17T21:43:19Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] [How’s this move you?](http://www.clangregor.org/images/ewan-kilt.jpg) Iffen ye cain’t find \*that \*sexy, ye’re dead and dust inside! 😃 . [/QUOTE] Ok this one even got my attention. I’m rather meh on kilts…the idea is nice, as others have said, but in reality they are OK. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/115 "2007-04-19T20:43:41Z")
Is there any other single garment that carries so much nonsense? If you want to wear a kilt, fine, but there’s no reason not to wear jockey shorts or boxers underneath unless you find the exposure exciting. I’d bet money that Scots in the 16th century (the earliest time when kilts were definitely worn) had linen drawers on underneath, like every other man in Britain. Pants are so practical and comfortable for most people that I doubt if kilts for men will ever be really fashionable in the U.S. But fashion is pretty arbitrary; lots of stuff that’s now seen as feminine was formerly worn by men instead (like hose), or by both sexes (like purses). ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/116 "2007-04-19T20:57:42Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] Is there any other single garment that carries so much nonsense? If you want to wear a kilt, fine, but there’s no reason not to wear jockey shorts or boxers underneath unless you find the exposure exciting. I’d bet money that Scots in the 16th century (the earliest time when kilts were definitely worn) had linen drawers on underneath, like every other man in Britain. [/QUOTE] I’m not in the habit of discussing my underthings, but in a general way I agree that wearing nothing underneath would just lead to problems (especially as I’m married and have no desire to [DEL]make the ladies point and laugh[/DEL] impress anyone) ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512/117 "2007-04-20T10:46:48Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] … I’d bet money that Scots in the 16th century (the earliest time when kilts were definitely worn) had linen drawers on underneath, like every other man in Britain… [/QUOTE] Cite? I think you’d lose that bet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-in-kilts-your-take/399512.md?page=5)