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Stillwater kilt lengths and styles
Okay....I am on the Stillwater Kilt site and this stuff looks great and I love the prices. I will get the Standard acrylic, looks really good....I just have two questions:
1. Are the Blackwatch and Nightstalker tartans both "non-clan" so regular people can wear them? Oh...regular people...what am I talking about.... So non-Scottish people can wear them? I know, everyone said I can wear any tartan I want to but I don't want to get into trouble, that's just the sort of person I am. 
2. I see these things only come in ONE LENGTH and I got out the tape measure and 24 inches will work GREAT for me....but how do some of you shorter guys handle this? I can't see you putting the waist up at your armpits so I was just curious....
Phoenix Phil
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 Originally Posted by pbpersson
1. Are the Blackwatch and Nightstalker tartans both "non-clan" so regular people can wear them? Oh...regular people...what am I talking about.... So non-Scottish people can wear them? I know, everyone said I can wear any tartan I want to but I don't want to get into trouble, that's just the sort of person I am.
You won't get into trouble. Forget about it.
Originally Posted by pbpersson
2. I see these things only come in ONE LENGTH and I got out the tape measure and 24 inches will work GREAT for me....but how do some of you shorter guys handle this? I can't see you putting the waist up at your armpits so I was just curious....
Some people hem them. Others just hoist the waistline up. Believe it or not, the military kilts have their top edge at the ribcage.
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Originally Posted by pbpersson
Okay....I am on the Stillwater Kilt site and this stuff looks great and I love the prices. I will get the Standard acrylic, looks really good....I just have two questions:
1. Are the Blackwatch and Nightstalker tartans both "non-clan" so regular people can wear them? Oh...regular people...what am I talking about.... So non-Scottish people can wear them? I know, everyone said I can wear any tartan I want to but I don't want to get into trouble, that's just the sort of person I am.
2. I see these things only come in ONE LENGTH and I got out the tape measure and 24 inches will work GREAT for me....but how do some of you shorter guys handle this? I can't see you putting the waist up at your armpits so I was just curious....
Phoenix Phil
The "Blackwatch" is actually deep in Scottish history. It's a military tartan. Run a Google on it, and you'll find a wealth information on the tartan as well as the Black Watch military unit. But, seriously, there shouldn't be any worries about wearing a Scottish tartan and not being of Scottish heritage. All I would recommend is at LEAST knowing what clan the tartan belongs to and maybe a brief history on it. But that's all my little tunnel visioned opinion.
The Nightstalker tartan is a SWK invention. I'm sure you would thoroughy enjoy that one. I have it with the matching hose flashes and LOVE it.
As far as the lenght... as stated before... some hem, others (myself included) just hoist her up high on the belly and carry on with business 
I'm really enjoying your passionate interest in all of this... 
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Originally Posted by pbpersson
1. Are the Blackwatch and Nightstalker tartans both "non-clan" so regular people can wear them? Oh...regular people...what am I talking about.... So non-Scottish people can wear them? I know, everyone said I can wear any tartan I want to but I don't want to get into trouble, that's just the sort of person I am.
The Nightstalker is a fashion tartan available only from Stillwater, thus ANYBODY can wear it as it has NO clan affiliation, or a district one for that matter.
You seem awfully worried about getting in trouble for wearing a certain tartan. Relax, very few people will even know what tartan you are wearing. Just know what a tartan represents if you wear it and wear it with honor and pride.
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb
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Enjoy the Stillwater kilts. They're a great value and their service is without equal. 
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You Don't Need
You don't need to be Chinese to eat chinese food or Mexican to eat mexican food feel free to wear the Blackwatch tartan or any other Scottish tartans.
Robert "the kilted" Lamb
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Originally Posted by davedove
The Nightstalker is a fashion tartan available only from Stillwater, thus ANYBODY can wear it as it has NO clan affiliation, or a district one for that matter.
You seem awfully worried about getting in trouble for wearing a certain tartan. Relax, very few people will even know what tartan you are wearing. Just know what a tartan represents if you wear it and wear it with honor and pride.
As others have said, I wouldn't worry about it too much. While at the 2005 Stone Mountain Highland Games, a vendor from Glasgow enquired about my Blackwatch kilt. He didn't recognize the tartan, nor did he seem to understand it's significance when I told him what it was.
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Just get it and wear it. Worry about your first public outing if you must, but not about the kilt so much.
Originally Posted by SouthernScot
As others have said, I wouldn't worry about it too much. While at the 2005 Stone Mountain Highland Games, a vendor from Glasgow enquired about my Blackwatch kilt. He didn't recognize the tartan, nor did he seem to understand it's significance when I told him what it was.
A vendor from Glasgow did not recognize the BW tartan? Was he from Glasgow, KY maybe? Even so, that is amazing!
The kilt concealed a blaster strapped to his thigh. Lazarus Long
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Originally Posted by pbpersson
.... So non-Scottish people can wear them? I know, everyone said I can wear any tartan I want to but I don't want to get into trouble, that's just the sort of person I am.
Originally Posted by davedove
You seem awfully worried about getting in trouble for wearing a certain tartan...
Overly concerned, I think. If one is that timid about wearing a tartan, I can't help wonder if one has what it takes to wear a kilt at all.
Regards,
Scott Gilmore
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4th July 06, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Scott Gilmore
Overly concerned, I think. If one is that timid about wearing a tartan, I can't help wonder if one has what it takes to wear a kilt at all.
Regards,
Scott Gilmore
Yes, I was thinking that as well.
I decided that I was already going to be fighting one battle just wearing a kilt in the first place and didn't want to further complicate things by having some tartan that would cause a public outrage.
However, much of this is because I am thinking about this too much because the kilt is not yet in my hands.
Typically in life I decide on a course of action and then I take it immediately because otherwise this is what happens, my mind goes wild and thinks up 1000 different possible outcomes because I cannot move forward.
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