Hmmm… Got that. 
Got a kilt as well, but an unfortunte laundry incident led to the wool “felting” and shrinking from 5 yards down to well, less, while getting thicker so it doesn’t pleat well. :mad: Oh well, it’s not bad as a table runner, at least.
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Supposedly this happened in front of Queen Victoria. Her Majesty simpley offered her hatpin to the man.
He was afraid one of the women would sue him for sexual harassment? Of course if a man tried to sue a woman because he looked up her skirt and she didn’t have panties on he be laughed out of court.
What I (think I) know about kilts, by LifeOnWry, as learned from some guy at the Ren Faire:
The wool used to make plaids (they’re not kilts until they’ve been folded and are on a body) was shorn from the sheep, dyed, spun, and woven into fabric WITHOUT WASHING. After its assembly into fabric, it was then washed in hot water, which both causes the wool fibers to shrink together (felting) and releases the lanolin that occurs naturally in wool - and thereby renders the fabric tight, warm and waterproof.
Also, “plaid” is fabric, not a pattern. Tartan is the name of the woven, uneven check pattern most of us think of when we hear “plaid.” And, kilts are pleated and folded from plaids by hand in measurements that correspond to the folder/wearer’s body, so all kilts (that are not pre-sewn into pleats) fit the wearer perfectly: for example, pleating begins one arm’s length from the edge, and individual pleats are the width of the wearer’s hand.
WRT regimental: men of old in Scotland wore very long shirts that knotted between the legs.
Or so sayeth the guy who told me all this stuff.
I’m for 'em.
Some friends got married at Ren Faire many years ago and we all went in costume. I traded a bottle of Scotch for a full Highland Laird’s getup - wraparound kilt, shirt, vest, tamoshanter (the hat that someone was asking about), sporran, etc. One of the other groomsmen collects medieval weaponry so we were properly armed.
Cut a dashing figure if I do say so myself. It was a lot of fun.
Very sexy indeed. Count me in.
Now, where can I get me one of those men in kilts…? 
So, how are you doing?
Actually, I’m spoken for…sorry to tease.
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? 
I see a number of the utilikilt style at contradances, where they are very practical and usually attractive. But a kilt does nothing good for the looks of a fat man.
Maybe I’ve yet to see a sexy man in a kilt (apologies to the Doper men in kilts who’ve posted here) but I don’t find them attractive at all. I like the idea of it, but in real life it just looks odd.
The Bay Area Dopefest I went to a couple years back, a young man wore an all black kilt and looked very nice.
What was his name?
Here’s a pic of me at my wedding. So that would be pro-kilt.
I married a man in a kilt (he was in the kilt). He wore a Montrose doublet that I had sewn. I’ve also made a kilt. Yep, a gen-u-wine 9-yard beauty. I was a Scottish Country Dancer for quite a while - needless to say I’m quite fond of laddies in kilts.
I’m very fond of kilts, but is has to be a properly handfolded, not sewn-pleat great kilt because sewn pleat kilts just look too much like skirts. The Utilikilts are pretty cool for a modern interpretation, I’m for 'em.
There was a fashion among the young men of our local SCA group who affected Scottish personas to wear a tiny bell hanging from a bit of ribbon tied to the end of their manly bits–the bell would hang to just below the hem of the kilt. It was very cute the way they’d jingle as they walked and quite a few of them were sporting the bells after a while–it all ended in tears one night as one of them stood up in one motion from a cross legged position on the ground and caught his bell under his instep as he stood… I won’t go so far as to say there was an audible “boioioioing!” noise but he did get quite the introspective look on his face for a while. Shortly thereafter, as the word got round, nary a jingle bell was to be heard from under a kilt. Fancy that! 
Whenever anyone really wears one in public, they tend to wear them too low and it looks a bit wrong, but what do I know…
I’ve never been against kilts, I just used to think as an Englishman it’d be a bit silly to wear one. But now I’m part of a (ex) Highland regiment I’m issued one, and told to wear it! When we go out into town for corps related celebrations, sometimes we’ll all just wear them and a rugby top for the hell of it. There’s a definate double standard for being groped/exposed in for guys in kilts opposed to girls in skirts!
But anyway, kilts look good if you’ve got the legs for it, if you’re wearing them en masse and if you wear it properly.
Oh, and if you’re actually Scottish (ie; live in Scotland, not just great-great-grandfather did) or have a really good excuse!
No True Scotsman would do such an unbelievably stupid thing.
I very much love men in kilts! My alma mater does in fact have a world championship winning bagpipe team and our Scottish festival is coming up in two weeks. I can’t wait to gawk at all the men in kilts! Some of them will even have brass plates and animal heads over their junk. I feel that makes it ok to stare directly at their crotch area.
How’s this move you? Iffen ye cain’t find *that *sexy, ye’re dead and dust inside! 
I’ll be in mah bunk.
This is a little more my speed.
But by all means carry on.
Interestingly enough, my maiden name is Scottish and we do have a tartan. It’s a pretty attractive one too, so that is a plus. Unfortunately, the side of the family I got the name from is a united bunch of scumbags, to be polite, so my desire to sport the tartan is diminished by that.
I’m thinkin’ I’ll get my husband a kilt and see how he likes it. He has rather large legs (sigh) that are rather difficult to fit in pants and I think that he would find a kilt rather comfy. He did admit that if it increase the groping, he would be all for it. Although I must say, with a toddler roaming about, he wouldn’t be nearly as eager to go about all regimental as he may have been in the past.
sigh there is an attractive womens skirt in my size, in my tartan on ebay right now. Alas, no cheapo utilikilts.