Kilt Do's and Don'ts

[MacConnachie]

How about this guy:



Not right. Not right at all.

I blame these sorts of sartorial gaffes on the "Immaculate Deception" material girl, you know the one (like I'm going to post HER name, here!), given the inordinate hem/selvedge lengths of the kilts on the men in the troupe for one of her more recent shows.

Interesting that the word "travesty" is from a root word that has to do with not dressing particularly "well."

As to the various pics, the lads with the plaids wrapped around them (you know, the bedsheet and tablecloth pic) had the material coming off of their right shoulder. I was always told that only the wimmin folk had the option of wearing a plaid hanging or wrapped that way, and that a man always wrapped the plaid around the body from lower right to upper left, with tie-off, pin, or what-have-you located at the left shoulder. Either that, or wearing a filidh mor pinned up over both shoulders from the back, for the lads.

The pleats in the front trick is not all that uncommon, but with the wide range of examples available for all to see out there these days, I don't know why it is that some folks still get it wrong. When you're renting kilts for a wedding party, or shelling out hundreds to more than a thousand for enough kilts to clothe a groom and several groomsmen, wouldn't it be logical to do enough research to have that basic idea (aprons up front, pleats to the rear) down?

[davedove]

When you're renting kilts for a wedding party, or shelling out hundreds to more than a thousand for enough kilts to clothe a groom and several groomsmen, wouldn't it be logical to do enough research to have that basic idea (aprons up front, pleats to the rear) down?

Or why don't the rental shops help them out with a little basic instruction. I know when I was in a wedding party with tuxes, there were fittings.

[The Supreme Canuck]

What makes you think that the rental guys know any better?

[KiltedKnight]

Perhaps these are all just members of Tom's Cafe and got lost somewhere along the way, or maybe they're simply cross-dressers?

Chris. :confused:

[Robin]

Whatever...can we burn them at the stake?

[Southern Breeze]

Whatever...can we burn them at the stake?

Nope, everyones laughing too hard to gather wood!!

[Cinnabar]

All I can say is that I'm very glad I spent some time here before my first kilted outing or I could have definitely made some of those same mistakes. Kudos to everyone here.

[Verlyn]

My eyes! My eyes! I didn't get a picture, but when my future SIL's mother bought him and his brother kilts at the local ren faire, the kilt maker put them on them backwards; with the apron going to the left. Got them both straightened out post haste.

[Catalyst]

Nope, everyones laughing too hard to gather wood!!

I'm laughing too hard at this comment to even think about gathering wood

[Mattg]

What's wrong with them!??! The last bunch are good, except that last guy. I feel sorry for them. They need guidence, and bad