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One Story a Day for Beginners, Book 8 · August · Story 11 — Skirts and Kilts

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Story 11. Skirts and Kilts

Girls wear dresses and skirts, and boys wear pants.

Isn't that true?

Well, not exactly.

Girls can wear pants.

We know that.

But did you know that in some places, boys wear skirts and dresses?

In Scotland, men sometimes wear skirts that are called kilts.

They have been wearing kilts for hundreds of years.

What special clothes do people wear in your country?

Our kilts look like skirts.

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