Not true about women wearing trousers. I'm going on visits to Orthodox monasteries which don't ban women, but I must wear a skirt. I'm going to try to see if a dress over trousers, like shalwar kameez, gets past the idiots*. Modest dress, leaving it to the wearer, that I think can be asked for. Banning a perfectly acceptable female dress is pushing it. (When I was at college we were not allowed to wear trousers to lectures or into town. We were not allowed to show our knees crossing the road (to the beach). When I started teaching, I was not allowed to wear trousers, until the Head realised that some of the miniskirts were not modest and permitted trouser suits. Extraordinary.)

Having gardened in shorts, I would think a kilt has a number of drawbacks, mostly enumerated above. Having gardened in skirts, the obvious snag is it catching on plants and damaging them - a kilt has much more opportunity for that.

*My feelings are expressed by the Aunt in the Towers of Trebizond. I men are disturbed by a woman in trousers, they must learn better.


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