Why Andy Murray, aka daddy, is definitely right about kilts – leader comment

The evidence that a kilt is not a skirt is compelling despite certain similarities between the two garments.

Andy Murray posted this image on Instagram, explaining: "When your daughters want to play dress up and say 'daddy put on your skirt!'"

Andy Murray is a Scottish sporting hero. But he is also, in the broader sense of the phrase, a good sport.

This was demonstrated in an appearance in the audience of the BBC’s Mock the Week when he displayed a sense of humour as the camera and the panellists’ attentions were turned on him.

Now he has added further evidence in revealing what happened when he allowed his young daughters to use him for a game of “dress up” with an Instagram post showing him wearing a tiara and his kilt or, as his girls called it, his “skirt”. “I tried to explain it was a kilt not a skirt but they assured me it was definitely a skirt,” Murray wrote.

Despite certain similarities between the two garments and the existence of items of clothing that are something of a hybrid of the two, we feel sure that just as not all skirts are kilts, the same is true vice versa. There are other equally strong points to be made on the matter, but these are far too complicated to go into in the length and detail required to do them justice.

Suffice to say that Murray, aka daddy, is right and it’s definitely a kilt, not a skirt. Almost certainly.