Originally Posted by
Troglodyte
Off you trot to the nearest kiltmaker, get measured-up, place your order and then wait with strained patience for the wonder garment to arrive.
And all the while you reflect on if this is the way it's always been.
Having my grandmother live with us, my first two kilts were acquired the way it had always been in the time and place she grew up, in a log cabin up a West Virginia holler at a time before "store-boughten" clothes were commonplace.
The process was that I bought the cloth and she made the kilts.
(buy/bought/boughten, sit/sat/satten, etc.)
Last edited by OC Richard; 7th February 25 at 08:24 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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