• rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
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      Nah. A kilt is longer, thicker, and has a flat double layer of fabric in the front (the apron). The pleating is only on the back and typically finer than this. Pleating a kilt is an art form all by itself and requires a lot of fabric. Those are just skirts.

      • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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        most of those kilt rules aren’t Scottish.

        The English banned kilts, except for the military. the results was that the kilt became a formal military uniform. And therefore full of strict rules on how to wear it. traditionally, you could wear a kilt or a great kilt however the fuck you wanted. it was what the people wore, from plebs to royals.

        IE, fuck the English, be ungovernable

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          Aye, sure, but those are skirts in the photo. Nowt wrong with that either, but there’s nae point in having two words when there’s a difference between what they mean.

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              Brits or English?

              Like, I get it - the clearances aren’t recognised enough as being one of the earliest genocides of the British Empire, but it wasn’t just the English who were responsible. Plenty of Lowland and Highland Scots were complicit. Nowadays I think a lot of us recognise that the kilt as typically worn is not the same as 500 years ago, but we still wear it with pride. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to wear a great kilt to a good ceilidh!