Not putting it on properly

[Holcombe Thomas]

When I picked up my kilt from the tailor (in Hong Kong!), he pointed out that the basting was to come out before wearing. I didn't need the warning, but appreciated it nonetheless. I never object to advice calculated to keep me out of trouble.

Holcombe

[OC Richard]

That pic of the guy wearing the kilt with the basting still there reminds me of another thing that happens when people wear the kilt too low: the "fell" ends up lower than it's supposed to be, so that the stitched portion goes under their backside, very bad-looking.

I suppose that if a guy is going to wear his kilt too low, with the top down around his hips and the bottom at the bottom of the knees, he should tell his kiltmaker, so that the fell can be put a couple inches higher.

[Blupiper]

Is wearing the kilt without taking out the basting the equivalent of buying a dress and leaving on the tags? So you can return it after the event and swear you didn't use it.

JMB

[Alan H]

I'm guilty of wearing the kilt out, the very first time, with the basting still in it. I only did it once, though.

[The Q]

I didn't notice the basting stiches on my kilt, until I got out of the car at the first function I was going to attend. they were black stiches on a Black Stewart kilt. Luckily I almost always carry a pocket knife and the one I had that day had scissors.

[James Hood]

'Encountered and quietly recommended to an individual, remove the basting stitches, at the Festival in Chicago, last month.

Another man had the pleats in front and when he was agin, quietly spoken with, not he, but his feminine companion, turned beet-red.

Sellers of ready-made kilts might do well to provide an optional card for novices, of how to don and adjust the kilt.

[Evestay53]

Gentlemen,
I have learned so much from what others have done wrong as I did from the posts on how to properly put on a kilt.
Thanks for all this advice.

If and when I am fortunate enough to own a kilt, I pray one of you gentlemen are around to help me make the necessary corrections. I want my ancestors to smile and not shake and lower their heads.

[tpa]

'Encountered and quietly recommended to an individual, remove the basting stitches, at the Festival in Chicago, last month.

Another man had the pleats in front and when he was again, quietly spoken with, not he, but his feminine companion, turned beet-red.

Sellers of ready-made kilts might do well to provide an optional card for novices, of how to don and adjust the kilt.

It is a wee bit difficult to conceive how someone (an adult) would actually choose to wear a kilt without having the slightest idea as to how it should look and also move when worn; especially the absence of basting stitches and pleats to the rear, both of which have a distinctly beneficial effect when it comes to the swish and sway. Surely they must have seen one beforehand otherwise how would they know about it? (I know, even Richard Branson got it wrong, but I suspect he was simply following directions of his publicity dept. who were no doubt following someone else's suggestions, without any idea themselves. Hope someone got a reprimand for that.)