My new favorite kilt...

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

or is that my favorite new kilt...

Hmmmh, OK both refer to the same thing (for those literature buffs, can you place the reference (sci-fi)?)...

Anyway, got my UK mocker in heather grey yesterday and wore it to work al day today. I am psyched! This my first UK and I must say I am impressed. The finish and cloth weight is much better than my AK. Not a dig on AK's, but I have commented before on being surprised that they just use an overlock stitch instead of turning the hem under and stitching it up, which is what UK does. The addition of slash pokets, with the 2 rear pockets is also awesome.

Got more good comments and acceptance on this kilt than any other I have worn, including from a co-worker who is of Irish descent, and married to an English gentleman. She regularly visits, or is visited by people from, the UK. She was not a huge fan of the AK, but did like the UK mocker.

One interesting thing for me, since I am making my own kilt, was the fact that the UK mocker pleats from both sides. On a traditional kilt, and based on Barb's book, the pleats start on the left side of the kilt over apron with a deep pleat, and then continue around the back of the kilt, with all pleats folded the same way, and a deep box pleat on the right side before the under apron. The UK, at least the mocker, pleats from the left side of the over apron, and from the right side of the under apron, and then has a box pleat in the back center. Works as well as the traditional, and actually brings the pleats onto the front of the kilt on this design as the apron is fairly narrow. Here is a picture, but it is actually somewhat darker, close to a charcoal gray:

[starbkjrus]

Rob,

My two UK originals are pleated the same way. I think I read a reason for it somewhere but can't recall where. In my own opinion though since the aprons are narrow and the pleats move onto the front of the kilt it makes for a neater and more symetrical look.

[Eujeankilt]

KCW,

I've got two mockers and really like them. I know it's not traditional, but I like the narrtow aprons and extra pleats in front. It's almost impossible to have modesty issues with these things. I copied the aprons and extra front pleats when I made my last kilt, but the main pleating went in the traditional direction. I believe UK has a patent on the pleating arrangement they use.

I really wish you hadn't posted a picture - now I have to figure out where I'm gonna scrounge $155. (Hi, my name is Dale and I'm a kilt wearer.......)

Enjoy,

Dale

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

...I really wish you hadn't posted a picture - now I have to figure out where I'm gonna scrounge $155. (Hi, my name is Dale and I'm a kilt wearer.......)

Dale, I know the feeling. I had seen this on the UK site, but the picture there really does not do it justice. The pic on the UK site makes it look more like a light ash gray, but it is much more like a dark charcoal gray. And as Mowgli said, with this pleat arrangement it would be almost impossible to reveal anything.

BTW, UK told me 4-6 weeks when I ordered it and I got it in about 2 - 3 weeks.