>It is, in fact, the greatest masculine display that a male wears a skirtIs it though?
Masculine places don't get annexed for 300 years and counting after failing to pay their debts.
>>18579750Pants were introduced by horse-riding cultures. Less about masculinity than practicality.Weird that Rome got pants from Celts, and yet the Scots hang on to kilts.
>>18579750It looks good even with pants. So I don’t get the problem. Barbarians wear cloth or next to nothing in RPGs. Thus, barbarian. Great axe or zwei hander build. And anyone is particularly cursed for making them lose their wife. The main thing was it was how they show clan colors.
The old great kilt was really more of a big blanket than a skirt. Good for bundling up on long journeys and sleeping on the ground in the open. The little kilt was a latter derivative form and stuck around for symbolic reasons and some practical ones. Scottish regiments always approved of wearing kilts and didn’t like being forced to wear trousers. By the men’s accounts, it was easier to hike and maneuver in.>>18579759The pants-version are called trews. Officers, gentlemen, and horse-mounted men would wear them. Sometimes foot regiments would wear trews, but as I said above, they often preferred the small kilt as their uniform for some practical reasons. I think there must be something to it too as the Highland regiments had a good reputation as light infantry.>>18579763>clan colorsThere were district/regional colors and patterns and possibly colors favored by certain chiefs, but having exact tartan patterns for a particular clan is a modern concept.
