Stupid is as stupid does. :oops:

[Mr. Kilt]

What a rush!! I got home from work to find a notice from the post office that a parcel was waiting for me. With baited breath I set off to retrieve it, hoping that it was the "Irish National" Stillwater kilt I'd won off eBay a few weeks ago.
I get it back home and promptly ripped into the package. Bestill my beating heart, it was!!!!!
With my wife looking on I stripped down and wrapped the lovely green tartan around my waist. What a brilliant green it was, too!
But wait! What's this? It doesn't seem to be hanging right. I do a quick spin and the pleats just sit there.
D'OH!!!!!
So...am I the only one who's tried on a new kilt and failed to notice that the pleats are stitched together for shipping?
Aside from that little situation, the kilt is fairly nice. It was the economy version, and as Jimmy Carbomb mentioned in his review of these kilts it will need a bit of work to make it a really nice kilt.
Pics will be coming once the mods are done.

[Blu (Ontario)]

Give the kilt a good test drive and let us know what you think of it.

[phil h]

What a rush!! I got home from work to find a notice from the post office that a parcel was waiting for me. With baited breath I set off to retrieve it, hoping that it was the "Irish National" Stillwater kilt I'd won off eBay a few weeks ago.
I get it back home and promptly ripped into the package. Bestill my beating heart, it was!!!!!
With my wife looking on I stripped down and wrapped the lovely green tartan around my waist. What a brilliant green it was, too!
But wait! What's this? It doesn't seem to be hanging right. I do a quick spin and the pleats just sit there.
D'OH!!!!!
So...am I the only one who's tried on a new kilt and failed to notice that the pleats are stitched together for shipping?
Aside from that little situation, the kilt is fairly nice. It was the economy version, and as Jimmy Carbomb mentioned in his review of these kilts it will need a bit of work to make it a really nice kilt.
Pics will be coming once the mods are done.

I did the same thing with one of my kilts.
thought I had got a womans skirt or a very badlt made kilt.

[Jimmy Carbomb]

Phil's kilt is done... and it's NOT an easy fix guys!

Stillwater kilts makes them in a manner that's VERY different from anything we see. To widen the front apron properly, it takes me 4 hours to do. FOUR HOURS for an apron!

We'll see Phil's review once he gets it back, but atleast it looks more "normal".

IF you are thinking about buying one and making the alterations yourself, just be REAL sure that you're VERY good with the needle and thread.

[r. m. anderson]

Stitching the pleats for shipment/transit is one of the small things that make the difference between a
cheap kilt mass produced without regard to how it will look/fit the wearer when he gets it and the
careful attention to detail even on Stillwater's
economy kilt that sets it apart from the "really"
inexpensive kilts. I have bought several kilts from
Stillwater and I state "They offer the BEST BANG FOR THE BUCK/DOLLAR/POUND/EURO in the Kilt business"!
With the pleats stitched for transit you have a ready to wear kilt (of course you have to remember to
remove the stitches before actually wearing the kilt). Sportkilt and some of the music brokers do not
stitch their kilts and as a result you have to wash,
dry and iron or have a dry cleaner do it before you
wear the kilt right out of the shipping carton.
I recently got the Stillwater 'Pride of Scotland' and
am very pleased with it.

[Hamish]

Please note that the pleats are not stitched expressly to protect the kilt in transit. Those zig-zag threads across the pleats, known as Basting, are actually put in when the pleats are being constructed. They are part of the kiltmaking process - at least, they are with hand-sewn kilts.

Yes, the basting is left in when the kilt is finished, but it is not added just prior to despatch.

[Blu (Ontario)]

Give the kilt a good test drive and let us know what you think of it.

[phil h]

What a rush!! I got home from work to find a notice from the post office that a parcel was waiting for me. With baited breath I set off to retrieve it, hoping that it was the "Irish National" Stillwater kilt I'd won off eBay a few weeks ago.
I get it back home and promptly ripped into the package. Bestill my beating heart, it was!!!!!
With my wife looking on I stripped down and wrapped the lovely green tartan around my waist. What a brilliant green it was, too!
But wait! What's this? It doesn't seem to be hanging right. I do a quick spin and the pleats just sit there.
D'OH!!!!!
So...am I the only one who's tried on a new kilt and failed to notice that the pleats are stitched together for shipping?
Aside from that little situation, the kilt is fairly nice. It was the economy version, and as Jimmy Carbomb mentioned in his review of these kilts it will need a bit of work to make it a really nice kilt.
Pics will be coming once the mods are done.

I did the same thing with one of my kilts.
thought I had got a womans skirt or a very badlt made kilt.

[Jimmy Carbomb]

Phil's kilt is done... and it's NOT an easy fix guys!

Stillwater kilts makes them in a manner that's VERY different from anything we see. To widen the front apron properly, it takes me 4 hours to do. FOUR HOURS for an apron!

We'll see Phil's review once he gets it back, but atleast it looks more "normal".

IF you are thinking about buying one and making the alterations yourself, just be REAL sure that you're VERY good with the needle and thread.

[r. m. anderson]

Stitching the pleats for shipment/transit is one of the small things that make the difference between a
cheap kilt mass produced without regard to how it will look/fit the wearer when he gets it and the
careful attention to detail even on Stillwater's
economy kilt that sets it apart from the "really"
inexpensive kilts. I have bought several kilts from
Stillwater and I state "They offer the BEST BANG FOR THE BUCK/DOLLAR/POUND/EURO in the Kilt business"!
With the pleats stitched for transit you have a ready to wear kilt (of course you have to remember to
remove the stitches before actually wearing the kilt). Sportkilt and some of the music brokers do not
stitch their kilts and as a result you have to wash,
dry and iron or have a dry cleaner do it before you
wear the kilt right out of the shipping carton.
I recently got the Stillwater 'Pride of Scotland' and
am very pleased with it.