Stillwater kilts without a post?

[emeraldfalconoflight]

Hello all,

I figured i would give props to SWK.

Their kilts are for the budget minded, and arent bad at all. Sure acrylic tends to burn but are we as kilt wearers being that reckless with our prized garments? I have 2 kilts from this company and I rather like them. Sure they are hard to Iron back into pleaty crispiness but they are a kilt that you dont really mind if it gets banged up a bit. It also shows wear in the fabric itself. I think they are more rugged looking in the long run compared to some others i have seen.

[O'Callaghan]

Not to mention that they ship them almost before you can order them!

They also have the cheapest wool kilts out there, as well as possibly the cheapest acryllics.

Their range is a bit limited, but you can't have everything.

[Matty Ross]

I love Stillwater Kilts

[MrLion]

My first TWO kilts were from Stillwater: a Thrifty... just to test the waters, then a "standard" acrylic. I still use them for casual/possibly-messy situations.

[J_Mimbs]

I've got an Economy and I love it. I'm hoping to get a Heavyweight soon.

[Inchessi]

Hello all,

Sure acrylic tends to burn but are we as kilt wearers being that reckless with our prized garments?

I, for one, never wear them in the same room as the girlfriend and wife.

[hkjrb623]

I have an economy and a standard. I've always loved their kilts. I will soon be adding one of their heavyweights to the collection.

[Mike S]

The heavyweights are a great value for money. All the more so when you do a bit of surgery to the kidney band area of the pleats a la conventional kilt construction.

[emeraldfalconoflight]

Mike S,

Are you really a member of multiple clans? I never knew that was possible. I am a Henderson (bodyguards to the MacDonald's of Glencoe).

Back to kilty goodness. I'm probably going to stick with SWK primarily because I can't afford to take out a bank loan for kilts, nor can I get a credit card for such purposes Alas, such is the fate of those with college loans.

I would love to get a green or black heavyweight. I get tired of my acrylic balooning up in a small breeze (thank God I wear a sporran )

The only other kilt I SHOULD get, because it is affordable is a sportkilt Henderson tartan. They are the only place I have found a PV Henderson (I think). But they don't use enough fabrick for a stocky highlander like meself.

I like that the SWK actually pulls and "beads" because if you think about it wouldn't the clansmen have had shown wear in their kilts? I want to see SWK come out with a box pleat.

Box pleats are actually the first style that kilts were made in when they became a tailored garment, and I believe this style looks better than the knife pleating when yardage is an issue.

What say Y'all?

[Mike S]

I am indeed an active member of all clan organizations applicable to my family roots. Much of the 20th/21st century bureaucracy of clan affiliation, assigned tartans etc. is largely a nineteenth century development spurred on by the rebirth in all things Scottish. The impetus for this interest can be attributed to George IV, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and Sir Walter Scott. An occurrence that took place well after the Clan system had all but disappeared mind you.

You can blame many of the US clan societies for perpetuating and compounding this into the modern age sadly. Either that, or encouraging membership from those that don't truly have a verifiable clan affiliation for monetary and membership "bulking up" reasons.

Americans in particular seem to embrace these post clan system, arbitrary rules as holy law. Perhaps as a way to partake in some form of an aristocracy from the old world.

This sort of rigid, exclusivity is not widely practiced in Scotland proper as compared to the new world clan societies in my experience.

I celebrate and embrace all of my Scottish roots (and Welsh and Irish), without excluding one for another.