>Kilts are not female attire. Or, I should say, a man in a kilt isn't
>"dressing in women's clothes". Besides the Scots, men in the entire Middle
>East and Mediterrainian wore kilt-like garments for quite a while, Greek and
>Roman tunics were worn with no leggings, etc. In most areas the difference
>between a "kilt" and a "dress" was the length (women's apparal generally
>being longer) (Beware; big, wide, sweeping generalizations at work here...).
Henry II of England got the nickname "Curtmantle" from his tendency to wear tunic and trousers at all times rather than the robes worn by the nobility. He apparently liked to run places....
In Ancient China the shift from chariots to horses caused the nobility to discard their long robes for tunics and trousers as well.
Of course, in both these cases, robes were worn by people who could afford to be idle. In China, at least among laborers, women also adopted trousers, skirts being impractical in most agricultural work....
Peter Larsen
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