Yes, when you land in the airport in Fiji about the the first people you see are airport security police wearing formal uniform sulus. Here are some Fijian police officers. You couldn't really mistake these gun-toting guys for women:
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Pants for women?
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Not enough pockets.
Cargo shorts are what I am stuck on.
Doesn’t look like they could run very fast in those sulus... must be why they’re carrying m16’sYes, when you land in the airport in Fiji about the the first people you see are airport security police wearing formal uniform sulus. Here are some Fijian police officers. You couldn't really mistake these gun-toting guys for women:
Not so in the great white north.
Trousers on European men predate industrial looms by millenniums. Apparently, the practice of my ancestors wearing trousers goes back to paleolithic times; basically as far back as history and archeology is able to discern.
Amoung the Greco-Roman Mediterranean cultures yes. But not amoung the Germanic peoples who populated Europe. In fact it was trousers that the Roman's used in their art to signify Germanic tribal peoples. So too did the Celts wear pants. In both cultures it was only the men who did so.
As a person of European descent, my people have kept this distinction of men wearing pants and woman not for literally more than 4000 years. It has only changed in the last 100 years as the communists have utilized feminism in an open attempt to destroy our civilization.
By our women wearing traditional female dress not only do we upholding the distinctions between the sexes, we reject the influences and perspectives of those who wish to destroy us.
A sufficiently feminine woman will still look feminine when wearing men's cloths. But she's still wearing mens cloths and that the problem. It's not just a problem of confusion, but of eliminating distinctions between sexes. That is the whole reason our culture was propogandized to get woman to abandon dresses.
I don't know how Fijians distinguish clothing between the sexes, nor do I care as it is not my culture. The modern cultural bias isn't for females to wear dresses, but for them to wear whatever they want, usually jeans. It is the ancient historic European culture for women to wear dresses. Even today, as rare as wearing them is, dresses are still distinctly feminine wear.
Serious answer: Yes, if I had one that fit, I would regularly wear a kilt, ideally in family tartan. I have long intended to buy one but don't spend much money on clothing for myself.
That's what a sporran is for (ie, a medieval belt pouch - worn by solders and anyone for thousands of years in many cultures, but only really preserved in Scotland as everyone else moved to pockets). They've got more space than several pockets together.
And it's why you stick your knife in your sock.
Where it's cold like Scotland...
Interestingly, the kilt in its modern form is a rather modern invention, as are clan tartans. The traditional dress of Gaelic people in Scotland and Ireland was actually a leine - which was a shirt that went down to the ankles or knees - very similar to Biblical garments. Women wore it to the ankles as a dress, men could wear it any way but would hitch it up with a belt for practicality when required. For warmth, a brat (cloak) was also worn over the shoulders, which could be wool or simply a tanned cowhide. As people became wealthier and could afford more wool, the cloak became longer, and eventually evolved into the belted plaid, which is a long blanket wrapped around like a kilt and upper body covering, all tied together with a belt - extremely practical for cold outdoor living as it's so multipurpose, you can wear it and sleep in it. Then that was reduced in size and eventually stitched into pleats to get the modern decorative kilt, which is a rather stylised clothing item, isn't really very traditional at all and, being sown into pleats, cannot be spread out as a blanket any more - it's a symbol of tradition rather than being actually traditional. My point is simply that a tunic-style dress for men has an ancient European history also.
Interestingly, they did wear a form of trousers too in particularly cold weather - but these were more extended socks, the longest forms of which reached right up to the waist.
Very interesting history of trousers by the way, I didn't realise they were quite so ancient. For me, having French, Scottish and all manner of other heritage, while living in the South Pacific, I can basically pick what traditions I like and find some legitimate sounding excuse to call them my own...
I do agree with you that women are most clearly women in skirts and dresses. I strongly encourage my wife and daughters to wear these, and much prefer my wife in a dress. I actually agree with you on this point, in general, except I don't take a hard line on it and am happy for them to wear differently when that is more practical.
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And here I thought that this was where kilts came from....
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No. I'm not one for fashion statements.
Jeans - winter.
Cargo shorts - summer.
T-shirt - year round.
For the British Isles, Scotland is cold. But not really compared to Scandinavia or the US upper Midwest.
Last week we had -52 F windchill.
Ya ultimately, a wives and daughters should dress to please the head of the house.
Last week we had -52 F windchill.
Ya ultimately, a wives and daughters should dress to please the head of the house.
Dind ding ding!!! Exactly right!
if I had a figure id were studding modest dresses but I do not so I feel I weare paints a lot not tight fitting .
saying that in last 2y I can not were dress that often 1 I only have about 3 as we live in a camper lol watch this space in next 4 months we be in our home .
