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Bravehearts' Gallery
The Braveheart Concept is about men being brave enough to include skirted garments in their wardrobe and dare to wear them out in public, whether traditional kilts, utility kilts, sarongs, lava-lavas, skirts made for men, or even, if looking manly enough, skirts for women.
It was created at the beginning of this century by an American lawyer and kilt enthusiast, known as WDP. He realised 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 counterproductive. 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not very much knowledge about web design, and his forum, being therefore not kept up with developments, would soon look outdated, compared not only to other forums but also to websites in general, resulting in declining activity.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. He had started, by that time, to wear denim skirts too. 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, so it seems, are replacing skirts with dresses and other definitely female stuff, thereby making it more difficult to achieve acceptance in an otherwise more liberal and understanding society.
Below are examples of "Bravehearts":
Young man in a kilted skirt with his girlfriend
Sightseeing in Prague. A couple in grey skirts. Noone cares.
Kilted among good friends
Kilt and miniskirt
Visiting Berlin. The man is wearing a skirt
Man in a kilt with his wife or girlfriend
Enjoying the sunshine. She in a dress, he in a kilt-like skirt, it seems
"Too short to be a kilt. Yes, I know, and it isn't a kilt but a tartan skirt."
Electronic store in a kilt
A couple walking hand in hand, both of them wearing skirts.
Elderly couple
"Whenever possible, he will wear a skirt", says his wife
Shopping for groceries, she in jeans, he in a skirt
Relaxed in skirts
Like father, like son
On holiday in Switzerland in a kilt
"Doesn't he look gorgeous in this skirt?"
"Why the skirt? It was a present from my wife. She wanted me to wear skirts, and I like wearing it."
Relaxed
"How about a pizza, darling?"
"You can have this car with three different batery sizes."
What a wonderful city.
In the mountains in comfortable kilt-like skirts.
A family visiting Paris. "When we feel like wearing skirts, we wear skirts. Clothes have no gender."
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A couple confident in skirts
"You can. Now go try this skirt on, darling"
Hiking in the mountains
"Last summer, I lost a bet and, therefore, I had to wear a skirt for an entire day. Since then, I have preferred skirts over shorts and jeans. Much more comfortable and looking better, I think. Fortunately, my friends, including my girlfriend, have no problems with me in skirts."
"How about walking up to the castle and having lunch there?"
Nice days in Croatia
"But there is a difference. My husband's skirts are two sizes bigger than mine" 
"Believe it or not. Yesterday, we ran into another family here in Paris with every one of them in skirts, not kilts. They were father, mother, and their two sons."
A man in a short, comfortable kilt at a grill party.
A man wears tights under his grey skirt as a fashion statement.
"I never thought I should see you in a skirt. And now you have been wearing one for over a week. Do you know, this morning I put a picture of you on Facebook, so that our friends, and my girlfriends and colleagues can see you in a skirt." 
"You're welcome. You can tell your husband that he doesn't have to worry about other people's reactions. He won't regret buying a kilt or skirt and wearing it out and about. Just you look around. Nobody cares about what I'm wearing - except perhaps those who might have an interest in wearing skirts themselves." 
"With one exception, all members of this family like being in skirts." 
A couple at a restaurant, he in a stylish leather skirt."The menu looks good. Maybe we should eat here?"
A young married couple on holiday.
"No, I'm not Scottish. I just like wearing a kilt"
He wears his skirt with confidence
Manly in a skirt
"Why does my husband wear a skirt? There are two main reasons: No. 1, he likes being in skirts. No. 2, I like seeing him in skirts."
"In our family, there are no types of clothes, only for him or for her. This includes that our son and I also wear skirts whenever we feel like it. On this holiday, we all wear short skirts most of the time," states the head of family (today in shorts) outside the Colosseum in Rome.
"A man in a kilt is a man and a half", as they say
"Matthew, I'm so proud of you because you are man enough to wear skirts." 
"We like dressing identically, no matter what. So, whenever I wear a skirt, my husband will very often wear a similar skirt."
"Should I tell him that I like, he dares wear a skirt?"
"You simply look so good in your new skirt, honey."
A couple all in white
"The people over there are staring at us.”
“Yes, but isn’t it James and Jessica? What a coincidence. Look, now they are waving. Let's go over and say hello to our good neighbours.”
At sunset in skirts
"On this vacation, we practise 'one for all, all for one'.” At least three, including one of the 'boys', must have voted for wearing a skirt. Whoever it has been, it means another day with the entire family in skirts. And everyone seems happy.
All men should try wearing a skirt.
"But you look so good, darling. It is only your second day in skirts. You'll get used to it before our holidays are over."
"I love you in this skirt."
"Doesn't he look adorable?"
"Twinning is big fun. We’ll not just coordinate colours, but every piece of clothing! So, when my wife wears a skirt, and she often will, I'll wear a skirt too, of course, same colour, same length", reveals a young man on the railway platform, waiting for a train to take them to Naples.
A young man in a grey skirt is strolling down the street. It's just about being self-confident. 
"When my husband told me he would like to wear skirts, I was terrified. But now, I think he looks so good in his skirts and not the slightest feminine. He is the man he always was or, perhaps, even a little better."
60 pictures showing men, confidently wearing kilts and other skirted 'manly' garments - the "Braveheart Way."
Some are with their wives or girlfriends, some are a bit young for that, some are alone, some are with friends, others are with their whole family in skirts.
Whatever kind of skirt or kilt, these men (or boys) combine it with clothes and shoes from gents' stores. That's why they appear manly, remain manly.
In the Braveheart terminology, the central word is MUG, Manly Unbifurcated Garments. I like the concept, not the MUG word. But MSG then? Manly Skirted Garments. Well, it might be associated with monosodium glutamate, used in cooking as a flavour enhancer, which has certainly nothing to do with manly skirted garments. But does a mug? OK, someday, some clever guy might come up with the perfect and unique word.
What I had had in mind, however, with this page, 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 by 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 out of WDP/Braveheart's 'trouser tyranny'.
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This page was totally redesigned on January 11, 2025, and last revised on August 27, 2025.
