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I would think a kilt would be fairly practical if you were walking through the Scottish highlands all day. Well, maybe a but chilly, but your legs would have plenty of unrestricted movement.
I think men in skirts/kilts is perfect fair play. For the guys who complain women wear pants too much, then let them wear skirts. I find a good kilt on a man very attractive. Wearing and playing well a set of babpipes just makes it better.
So if there was a gust of wind a Roman centurion would lose his dignity? lol
Male sexual prudishness came in with Christianity, but even then it took quite awhile for all the hangups we have today to settle in. Sometimes, but evidently not often, men wore loincloths under their tunics; however, the utility of being able to just lift the tunic and take pee without fussing with undergarments had too many practical advantages. Oil lamps shaped as penis and testicles were evidently not uncommon items, so Romans seemed to get a good laugh out of sexual equipment rather than the snig gers or gasps it tends to evoke today. Priapus was depicted in frescoes and statues weighing his gigantic penis on a set of scales.
The Romans usually used community baths too, rather than private baths in the home, and because the public baths were considered by the Christians to be places of great immorality, bathing and cleanliness itself took a hit. Bathing became a sign of licentiousness, and having a heavy stench of body odor was virtually a sign of good Christian living. This gives a new meaning to the churchly expression "the odor of sanctity."
I would think a kilt would be fairly practical if you were walking through the Scottish highlands all day. Well, maybe a but chilly, but your legs would have plenty of unrestricted movement.
The kilt as a skirt, which we think of today as the kilt, was an 18th century creation. Prior to this the predecessor of the kilt was a long piece of cloth wrapped around the waist, secured by a belt with a large remaining length thrown over the upper body. It was long enough that it could be undone and wrapped around the body at night for more warmth. Early Christian sculpture in Ireland and Scotland some men wearing short tunics and others wearing trousers.
As I recall the modern kilt began as something of a work skirt for men.
The word kilt comes from the Scots word kilt meaning to tuck up the clothes around the body, although the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (vol. 15, p. 798) says the word is Scandinavian in origin. The Scots word derives from the Old Norse kjalta,[1] from Norse settlers who wore a similar, pleated garment.
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Male sexual prudishness came in with Christianity, but even then it took quite awhile for all the hangups we have today to settle in. Sometimes, but evidently not often, men wore loincloths under their tunics; however, the utility of being able to just lift the tunic and take pee without fussing with undergarments had too many practical advantages. Oil lamps shaped as penis and testicles were evidently not uncommon items, so Romans seemed to get a good laugh out of sexual equipment rather than the snig gers or gasps it tends to evoke today. Priapus was depicted in frescoes and statues weighing his gigantic penis on a set of scales.
The Romans usually used community baths too, rather than private baths in the home, and because the public baths were considered by the Christians to be places of great immorality, bathing and cleanliness itself took a hit. Bathing became a sign of licentiousness, and having a heavy stench of body odor was virtually a sign of good Christian living. This gives a new meaning to the churchly expression "the odor of sanctity."
Yeah Roman bathhouses were often used for far more than bathing .
For some reason society has a knee-jerk reaction to seeing the 'package.'
Dizzybint, interesting info re derivation of "kilt". There's an old Scottish song, "Leezie Lindsay", in which a young woman follows her remarkably-named true love across hill and moor, and includes these lyrics:
"She's kilted up her skirts o' green satin/ a little aboon the knee/ and she's gane wi' Laird Ronald McDonald/ His bride and his darlin' tae be!"
Wow, we never knew Ronald McD. had such an interesting past and was both a laird and a romancer, did we?? Wonder why his typical present-day attire no longer includes the McDonald tartan?
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