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A skirt is the lower part of a dress or a separate outer garment that covers a person from the waist downwards.
Skirt
Drawing of a girl's skirt made of wool yarn found in a Bronze Age tomb in Borum Eshøj, Denmark
Vinča figurine depicting a skirt
Sumerian man wearing a kaunakes, c. 3000 BC
Men's skirts
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Outside Western cultures, men's clothing commonly includes skirts and skirt-like garments; however, in the Americas and much of Europe, skirts are usually seen as feminine clothing rather than men and
Skirt
…side by side in fashion magazines and catalogs. Fashion designers such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, Kenzo and Marc Jacobs have also shown men's skirts. Transgressing social codes, Gaultier frequently introduces the skirt into his men's wear collections as a means of injecting novelty into male attire…
A modern utility kilt
Statue of Ramaat, an official from Gizeh wearing a pleated Egyptian kilt, ca. 2.250 BC
A Greek charioteer from Delphi wearing a long chiton, ca. 470 BC