{"id":2475,"date":"2004-05-10T05:01:42","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T19:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/10\/kilts-not-skirts\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T09:36:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:36:49","slug":"kilts-not-skirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/10\/kilts-not-skirts\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilts, not skirts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11130,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.com\\\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&amp;storyID=5082571&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.com\\\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4322,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.utilikilts.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260101183407\\\/https:\\\/\\\/utilikilts.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 03:25:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-22 11:15:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 05:25:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 19:06:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 18:22:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 06:38:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 06:38:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Brad, Brad, Brad &#8212; so close, and yet so far away.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Actor Brad Pitt said Sunday that fashion-conscious men may be wearing Greek-style skirts soon after his big-budget film about the Trojan War opens this week.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&amp;storyID=5082571\" title=\"Pitt Says Men May Start Wearing Skirts After 'Troy'\">Men will be wearing skirts by next summer.<\/a> That&#8217;s my prediction and proclamation,&#8221; he said with a laugh. &#8220;The film answers to both genders. We were going for realism and Greeks wore skirts all the time then.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Some<\/em> of us don&#8217;t need to see Brad Pitt running around in a Greek-style skirt to be comfortable enough with our masculinity to wear something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utilikilts.com\/\" title=\"Utilikilts\">other than pants<\/a>&#8230;and <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/freedom.html\" title=\"Freedom!\">look damn good<\/a> while doing it! ;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Sweet Jane&#8221; by Cowboy Junkies from the album <em>Natural Born Killers<\/em> (1988, 3:23).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Brad Pitt said Sunday that fashion-conscious men may be wearing Greek-style skirts soon after his big-budget film about the Trojan War opens this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2037],"tags":[23,6,13,2439],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-humor","tag-life","tag-troy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}