Gallere traditional tartan kilts

The Braveheart Way



The Braveheart Concept is about MEN being brave enough to include skirted garments in their wardrobe, whether traditional kilts, utility kilts, sarongs, lava-lavas, skirts made for men, or even, if looking manly enough, skirts for women and who dare wear them out in public.

It was created at the beginning of this century by an American lawyer and kilt enthusiast, known as WDP. He realized that 'defeating trouser tyranny', as he described it, would need more than just men in traditional kilts.

WDP was convinced that a manly appearance was alpha and omega, should skirted garments ever become accepted by men the way trousers had been for women just forty years earlier. He also advocated that men wanting everything from the female wardrobe - the Freestylers, as he called them - should be contra-productive. This is an opinion, I share. Men in dresses, long floral skirts, sheer tights, and high heels don't appeal to many men - and even less to their wives.

WDP would also run a very nice forum, Kiltmen.com. Unfortunately, he had not much knowledge about web design, and his forum, being therefore not kept up with developments, would soon look outdated, compared not only to other forums, but also to websites in general, this resulting in declining activity. Around 2010 he closed it, and I don't know what happened to WDP afterwards. Back then he could have been in his sixties, I guess, or early seventies. Hopefully, he is enjoying retirement somewhere in a kilt, or perhaps a 'manly' skirt. Should he read this, I wish he would drop me a few lines, telling how he is doing. By all means, I think his Braveheart concept deserves a revival. It is as relevant as ever, especially at a time when freestylers increasingly, as it seems, are replacing skirts by dresses and other definitely female stuff, thereby making it more difficult to achieve acceptance in an otherwise more liberal and understanding society.

Red man skirt
Red man skirt.
Utilikilt
Utilikilt Original Postal Blue.
man skirt
Red skirt by Dirk
USA Kilts Casual
USA Kilts Casual American Heritage tartan.
Utility kilt
AmeriKilt, olive green.
Kilt MacGregor tartan
Kilt, 5-yard MacGregor tartan.
Kilt 3-yard Stewart Royal tartan
Kilt 3-yard Stewart Royal tartan
Neo-traditional kilt
Neo-traditional kilt, pleats at the sides, 4-yard Elliott tartan.
Utilikilt
Utilikilt Original in black..
Black kilt
Black kilt with white knee high socks.
Utility kilt
AmeriKilt olive.
Denim skirt
Denim skirt.
Red skirt
A red man skirt by Dirk.
man skirt
Man skirt, Die Græfin Berlin
Kilt
Forest green kilt.
Black kilt
Short black kilt
Utilikilt
Utilikilt Original Black.
Denimskirt
Manly denim skirt in the zeroes.
Red skirt
A red man skirt by Dirk.
Utilikilt Original Sand
Utilikilt Original Sand
Black man skirt
Black man skirt by Dirk.
man skirt
Denim man skirt by Dirk
Canvas kilt
5 yard Canvas kilt.
Black man skirt
Black man skirt by Dirk.
AmeriKilt with blacvk tights
AmeriKilt worn with blacktights
Kilt
20" 4-yard kilt Stewart Black tartan.
Man skirt
Black man skirt.


Of the altogether 27 pictures on this Braveheart gallery page, 41% are showing tartan or solid kilts, 22% utility kilts, and 30% skirts designed for men. 2 pictures = the ramaining 7% are skirts positioned for women but by design they could have been men's shorts, had they had an inseam.

Do these 27 pictures represent MY Braveheart way? No. I for my part estimate, that when not wearing trousers, I might spend almost all my time in traditional kilts, leaving maximum ten percent, and probably closer to five per cent, to all other skirted garments put together, including utility kilts. So it has been for over 20 years and this ratio is hardly going to change.

The word MUG is central in Braveheart terminology. Manly Unbifurcated Garments. I like the concept, not the MUG word. But MSG then? Manly Skirted Garments. Well, it might be associated with mono sodium glutamate, used in cooking as a flavour enhancer, which has certainly nothing to do with manly skirted garments. But has a mug? Well, some day, some clever guy might come up with the perfect and unique word.

What I had had in mind was to demonstrate, that the difference, when it comes to skirted 'manly' garments, is not that big after all. YOUR Braveheart way can be 100% traditional kilts. It can be 100% skirts of a kind. It can be anything in between. If and when in a kilt you can abide to rules, or you can follow no rules, or you can make your own rules. You are the one to choose your style and to take the step.

This one is the last gallery page. If you think, you have missed somethng, you might go back; otherwise you can proceed to the LINKS pages. Below you find the links.



This page was revised 2023, December 22.

Galleries




Kilts and skirts

Introduction

The gallery section - structure, objective, and technique.



Kilts

Tartan kilts

Traditional style. 35 pages with kilts in 35 different tartans.



Solid kilts

Solid kilts

Traditional style. Kilts in black, forest green, and light green.



Kilt

Utility Kilts

Eight pages showing eight different utility kilts.



Skirt

Skirts

Two pages with man skirts.



Kilts and skirts

The Braveheart Way

A mix of manly skirted garments.





Links pages




Kilt

Links #1

Vendors of kilts and accessories. Tartan mills, and tartan finders. The most comprehensive links page for kilts on the internet.



Kilt

Links #2

Vendors of non-traditional kilts, utility kilts, sarongs, man skirts, unisex-skirts, "manly" skirts, and some shorts.



Kilt

Links #3

Kilt and skirt forums, non-commercial home pages, blogs, picture galleries, videos, articles in print media and on the internet, men in kilts and skirts on stage and on the cat walk.




What's new and back to start




Kilt

What's new?

At a glance, find out what is new, has been changed or has been deleted on the D2K site since your last visit.