Loud MacLeod ... to stripe?

[Dixiecat]

I was once told "Anything worth doing, is worth over doing" ... I'd love to see that outfit on a dancer that knows her craft. I imagine it would be like sunshine exploding from the stage.
Rondo

I was thinking she'd be more of a super nova.

[OC Richard]

In general I prefer having kilts pleated to a stripe, for a couple reasons 1) it's the more traditional way and 2) it gives you two "looks" for the price of one, because the kilt looks very different from the front and the back.

The exception is certain tartans which have a careful balance of colours, which require all the colours to be seen for the tartan to "work" visually.

Well the Allen Bros MacLeod is not one of those! It's bold and stark.

I would try pleating it to a black band, so that the kilt is black across the rear, but when you walk and the pleats swish the brilliant yellow underneath shows.

The Royal Stuart kilts in the Army are pleated like that: pleated to a dark portion of the tartan but when the pleats swish you see the bright scarlet.

BTW there was a Pipe Band here in SoCal back in the late 1970s which wore that Allen Brothers MacLeod. And boy did they overdo it!

They wore black Prince Charlies and black Balmorals, but just about everthing else was that tartan: kilts, belted plaids, full tartan hose, tartan bag covers and drone ribbons, and even the dicing on their Balmorals was covered with a strip of tartan!!

If ONLY I had a photo of them!!

But I did find THIS
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p...d-Kilt-Package

and THESE

[xman]

Y'see, now that looks fine.

[auld argonian]

ooooh...gnetly, there....that's starting to creep dangerously close to those scary day-glo outfits the little Irish dancing clone-girls wear....Scottish dancing always has more class because the outfits tend toward tasteful restraint.

Still....you wouldn't have much trouble finding her in a crowd...

Best

AA