Next year will be 40 years kiltwearing for me. I've only owned full-yardage traditional wool handstitched kilts, in medium weight or heavy weight (13oz, 16oz, and my new 18oz).
Of course when I started wearing kilts that was the only sort of kilt there was! Casual kilts and Utilikilts were far in the future.
Myself and the vast majority of people in 'the pipe band scene' are traditionalists in that way, sticking with traditional kilts. I wear kilts anywhere I want to with no worries, and I have no interest in nontraditional kilts. Sorry, it's just the way I've always been.
By the way, pipe band kilts get very heavy usage: countless hours on coach trips, in the rain all day, in the sun, in pubs (where anything and everything gets spilled on them), being mistreated by young band members (thrown in a pile in the corner of their closet) and these kilts still look good after decades of such use.
Last edited by OC Richard; 4th April 14 at 04:12 AM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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