Men's vs Women's Kilt Pleating
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- What's the difference between men's and women's kilts? Is it true that men's kilts have pleats going to the right while women';s kilts have pleats going to the left? Kilts for ladies, ie. kilted skirts, are made differently from a kilt for a man.
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Traditionally females didn’t wear kilts, they wore ankle length tartan skirts, with a earasaid, or an older woman would wear a long tartan skirt, and a tonnag. Now you can get a kilted woman’s skirt, but - it is in fact made with the apron seam on the left. Google school skirts or uniforms in Scotland back around the 70’s when boys still wore shorts as their uniform, and you will see the tartan skirts and pins, like an oversized old fashioned baby nappy / diaper pin.
Unrelated I know, I had heard that men’s and women’s shirts/blouses buttoned in the opposite direction because a gentleman was expected to button his own shirt when getting dressed and a lady would have her maid do her buttons for her.
I guess this also assumes that buttoning is easier in one direction over the other for the majority right handers. Never mind that 99.9 percent of women have had to button themselves through history.
I have never verified this (I mean it would be so difficult to look it up before posting right now, but where’s the fun in that).
How does this relate to kilts? It doesn’t, really.
blacksmith67. There is a french version, where the woman is undressed by her man. The buttons are arranged to be on the opposite side, to encourage him and make it easier for him.
As most men are right handed it's easier to put your hand inside the clothing if you are carrying a weapon etc. And sure pink was for boys is was supposed to be to bright for females so they got blue. Then magazine's came along and someone put a girl in pink and next thing no more pink boys. And it was very common to put young boys in frilly white dresses. That where christening gowns came from. So once magazines started to put patterns of clothes in them the buttons was just a fashion designer idea. And it stuck.
Plus the blouse used to be a male garment. And hight heels shoes was male aswell.
Long Stockings was for both I think. But before trousers men used to wear long tunics and skirts. And many men in different parts of the world wear them today every day.
They say once men started to ride horses leg covers became trousers. It's funny as a Viking I can walk around in a long tunic with my Viking belt gear and no one say's anything. But I remove the gear people have asked why am wearing a long nightie lol. But men do still wear long nightshirts in bed.
Didn't the Black Watch get called the devil's in skirts ?
The Belfast Viking Martin Brown. Great comment. As an OAP, I'm old enough to remember the frilly christening dresses, just. I had a spell of wearing pink, just to be subversive in my teens and twenty. I dont like rules, for rules sake. Great info in your comment.Thanks.
The Belfast Viking Martin Brown I have heard that it was one of the American First Ladies who popularized pink for women (in a time when photos were mainly black and white). Women who emulated her fashion made pink popular among adult females and later it trickled down to young girls and infants.
Boys did indeed wear dresses for a long time, I have copies of the Canadian Illustrated News from the late 1800s that show this. At some point a boy would trade in his dress for short trousers, and later when he was a fair bit older, he would put on long trousers as a right of passage.
blacksmith67. Agreed. I dont have your knowledge on the history of pink, so thanks for that, your a scholar. Knew about the dressy garment, to shorts bit. My older wasn't allowed to wear long trousers until he left school, aged 14. During the war years 1939-45, that was his rite of passage.
I wonder, what do you do with all the fishes? The pices you cut out from the inside of the pleats? can you make flashes out of them?
Why the difference? You say men’s are usually one way but women’s are 50-50. Why are these not the same for both?
So men's kilts can go the other way around and it be alright then ? I didn't know that.
No... 99.9% of men's kilts go in one direction: Counter Clockwise as you wear them and look down. WOMEN'S pleats can go either direction.
I found awesome 100% wool tartan at a thrift store. I'm trying to figure out what clan it might be or if it's just a random one. What would be a good resource to figure it out? I know it isn't Gillis which is my great grandma's family.
Tangled up in tartanology.?
Maybe, hmm.
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