Haven't been Kilting much - Important decision to make.

**Mickey** · 4th April 12, 08:08 PM

Originally Posted by Spartan Tartan

Like others have said, is there an emotional attachments or are these passed down from your family? If it is just the tartan that matters and not the actual kilt itself, I say sell and get a newly made kilt of the same tartan. But if they are heirlooms ...keep them and adjust the buckles.

***. As a guy who has lost 50# this last year, congrats! Not being able to fit into a kilt is really great inspiration to keep it that way!

**mookien** · 4th April 12, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by Arlen

... Should I suck it up and sell the two Kilts I love and use the money towards buying some more that actually fit me well? ...

In a word, ... YES, absolutely! OK, two words. Congratulations on the weight loss. I know it ain't easy.

**guardsman** · 5th April 12, 07:12 AM

Get them adjusted,No need to lose a kilt you love!

**Joshua** · 5th April 12, 08:26 AM

Congrats Arlen, I myself am on a similar path - it was one of my primary reasons for buying mostly PV kilts. I've now ungrown most of them save 1-2 and now find myself dangerously close to not having an "interim" kilt.

My idea is/was to just wear the PV's until I can't, and get them sized down, and then when I can't size them down anymore... start saving up for an honest tank. Considering my muscle mass (despite my large frame), I would be uncomfortably lean at 230, so my goal weight for this new tank is around 260lbs (which would also put me in the middleweights for strongman competition - if I decided to ever compete again).

Once I'm 260, I'll get a new one. Unless I make it to 260 and am not happy with it. After weighing as much as 100lbs heavier than I currently am there are some other physical challenges to attend to.

**creagdhubh** · 5th April 12, 08:42 AM

Keep them, just in case you gain the weight back.

Cheers,

**cessna152towser** · 5th April 12, 09:38 AM

I would say sell if you are sincere about keeping the weight down, and use the money to buy kilts which fit.
If, however, there is an emotional attachment, by all means keep a kilt. You never know but it might again fit you when you are much older and develop middle aged spread.
I bought my Cunningham Modern kilt in 1994 and wore it for its first couple of years until it became too tight for me. After a decade or more hanging in the closet, the kilt again started to be worn about three or four years ago once I had lost some weight.

**dea3369** · 5th April 12, 10:24 AM

If there are no emotions or other feelings tied to the kilts, sell them. If there are emotions/feelings associated with them, maybe you could find somebody who would honor them as you have. I've discovered that when letting go of things with intangible value (history, emotion, experience, etc.), I feel better if I know that the items will mean as much to the new owner as they had to me. I just didn't abandon them, I handed them down to the next generation.

**Arlen** · 5th April 12, 12:55 PM

Personally, I'm trying to account for middle age spread in the future with any other Kilts I buy and not buy something I can only wear for a year. (Let's face it, I'm never going to have a 30" waist again or if I do, I won't for my whole life.)
However, I've lost enough that the only way to take the Kilts in would involve making the aprons smaller and having some of the pleats from the back coming around the front.
I love them and have a lot of good memories associated with them, but unfortunately when I wear them now I just feel awkward and that I don't look very good. And I dread to think what they'll be like when I lose the last 20lbs I'm aiming for. (To get to the recommended BMI weight I'd need to lose 35lbs but I was born to be shorter and thicker than average so I'm not aiming for that.)

I am going to go ahead and clean the Kilts up and then offer them on here for sale. The money will go into a fund towards a really nice new Kilt.

**Lyle1** · 5th April 12, 01:12 PM

If you can't have them altered to fit, then I would sell them unless you have an emotional reason to hang on to them. Get a kilt that fits and promise yourself that you will never buy a larger size. Then, if you gain enough weight that your kilt is too tight, your only option is to lose weight. I made myself that promise almost 40 years ago, and it works. There have been times when I had very little that I could wear, but I always lost the weight eventually.

**John_Carrick** · 6th April 12, 12:39 AM

Also well done on the weight loss.
I lost a lot of weight last year as a result of illness and was able to get two lovely kilts adjusted by the original kilt maker. Moving buckles can work for a two or three inches but for more than that they might need to remove material.
John