Pimpin' :)

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 5th December 12, 04:53 AM

Originally Posted by Dale Seago

He just turned 82 by Japanese reckoning. And throughout the 3 days of the "Daikomyosai" intensive international training seminar he was constantly doing stuff that just had my jaw dropping to the floor.

Is Japanese reckoning different somehow in terms of aging? Your phrasing is curious so I just had to ask.

**Spartan Tartan** · 5th December 12, 06:06 AM

Dale, you look fantastic. That is a great outfit.

**Dale Seago** · 5th December 12, 07:07 AM

Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome

Is Japanese reckoning different somehow in terms of aging? Your phrasing is curious so I just had to ask.

Yes it is. The older counting system (they use ours as well) in Japan has one's life beginning at the presumed time of conception and the first "year" is not a full year, so you're born at "one year".

**unixken** · 5th December 12, 08:12 AM

Dale and Matt -

Your photos have convinced me. I've gone ahead and ordered a bias-cut tartan waistcoat to match my tank.

**BCAC** · 5th December 12, 08:42 AM

Where did you order it from, Ken?

**unixken** · 5th December 12, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by BCAC

Where did you order it from, Ken?

I ordered from Scotweb, same place I got the kilt.

I'm having the waistcoat done in 10oz Locharron wool, rather than the 16oz Locharron that the kilt is made of. (I break into a sweat just reading a newspaper - heavyweight wool for the vest would be way too much.)

**Dale Seago** · 5th December 12, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by unixken

I'm having the waistcoat done in 10oz Locharron wool, rather than the 16oz Locharron that the kilt is made of. (I break into a sweat just reading a newspaper - heavyweight wool for the vest would be way too much.)

Sensible under the circumstances, but -- is the sett size the same for both weights?

**unixken** · 5th December 12, 11:04 AM

I have a tam-o-shanter made from the same 10oz wool, and though there is a small difference in sett size, I think the 45 degree rotation and the visually busy colors of the Buchanan Modern tartan will make it difficult to pick up on what appears to be only an inch or so difference, in the rather large-ish asymetrical Buchanan sett. At least that was my feeling when I held the hat up against the kilt.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 5th December 12, 12:58 PM

If you look at the photo of myself in my New House Highland tartan, you'll see the sett size on my waistcoat is a bit smaller than the sett size on the kilt. I agree, I think it looks nice if the sett size is the same, but I also think having a slightly smaller sett size in the waistcoat doesn't spoil the look.

I was wearing this same outfit, plus a plaid in the same tartan, at the Stone Mountain Highland Games. I was talking with a man who was fretting about getting a tartan waistcoat made and not having the sett size match his kilt tartan precisely. He was very concerned about it, until I pointed out to him that the tartan in my kilt, waistcoat, and plaid were all three slightly different set sizes, from three different weaves. He looked me up and down, and then decided matching the precise sett size wasn't that important. :-)