
Fashion History Now #46: 21st Century Kilts, an interview with Howie Nicholsby
Dressed: The History of Fashion
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Can Women Wear Kills or Should Women Wear a Kill?
A kill used to be when I was growing up very gender specific But only men would want to wear a kill because it's eight yards of fabric or 67 meters of tweed but it's a very heavy Garment well actually it weighs less than two kilos Like I'm once it's on your bodies. It's quite comfortable. So I have women customers who buy men's shaped fitting kilts in yardage and also do a women's kill which is less yardage and a more Feminine shape. Women can pretty much wear whatever they want Okay, it's really men who are put under this microscope of masculinity and gender Assignment that has to be masculine or messaged by your clothing.
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