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From: Antonio Marques <no_email@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: "a Pair of Panties" ?????
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Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
> Le 01/07/2024 à 12:38, occam a écrit :
>> On 01/07/2024 07:56, Hibou wrote:
>>> 
>>> I observe that the kilt is singular - two legs, but only one hole.
>> 
>> While in Aberdeen, the question arose: "what's the difference between a
>> kilt and a skirt? What do Scottish women wear?"
>> 
>> The wittiest answer I got was that Scotsmen call it a 'kilt' to avoid
>> the embarrassment of having to admit that they are wearing a skirt.
> 
> That may well be true; certainly one encounters considerable resistance 
> among Scots, both men and women, if one calls a kilt a skirt. 

I'd say they're incredibly touchy about it.

> This, I 
> think, is just a matter of time and place. At other times and places, it 
> has been and is normal for men to wear skirts - Roman legionnaires did, 
> for instance.

From what I can tell, skirts and dresses were the standard garments for
blokes pretty much everywhere until very recently. It was women with
trousers that were considered unnatural.