Pleat Splay

[GlassMan]

I have to admit that I use the hangers with the 2 clips, but I've solved the problem of the weight by using 2 hangers per kilt. One hanger is clipped to the rear of the kilt and the other hanger is clipped to the front and back apron.

And since I wear my kilts constantly and still don't have a collection as large as Hamish' I don't have a problem with splay.

[Hamish]

In all my years of kilt wearing, I have always hung them folded as if being worn (with all the buckles/straps done up) and, until fairly recently, I used the wooden clamp-style hangers that Matt mentions - except that mine were 14" or 16" long. These were ideal, but I can no longer find these hangers with such long 'arms' and have been obliged to use the 2-clip hangers. There is no sagging of the waistband problem with the lightweight kilts - the clips hold everything taut and straight - but with the heavier kilts I add a spring-clip clothes peg near the centre of the hanger to support the waistband at that point.

Each kilt is in a transparent plastic cover which not only protects the kilt, but also prevents the pleats from getting caught-up on the kilt hanging next to it!

[GMan]

Thanks Ham for letting us in on the way you care for your kollection, very helpful for future and present Kilts.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

If you leave it hanging there for long periods of time, then yes it might. But each of my kilts gets a wearing about once a week, once every two weeks at the least, and only rarely do I have this problem.

I've been thinking about this reply that I made last night and I spoke too soon. Out of the seven kilts I currently own, and the numerous others I have owned in the past, only one kilt gives me the problem of occasionally getting creased in the front. It's my lovat green Harris Tweed.

I have one other Harris Tweed kilt, and it's a lighter weight tweed, and it never gives me this problem. The lovat green is a very heavy weight. I don't know why that would make a difference, but this is the only kilt I remember ever having to iron out a slight crease in the front apron.

All my other kilts are standard worsted wool tartan, either 16 oz or 13 oz (though I have in the past owned everything from 10 oz to regimental weight), and none of them have ever had a crease in the front apron after hanging this way -- including one old MacGregor 8 yarder that I tend to wear only when I'm going to be marching in a parade and want the extra swish. So it will hang in my closet for months at a time and still not get creased.

I don't know why I only have this issue with my Harris Tweed kilt, and why with one and not the other, but there you go!