Just won a Geoffery (Tailor) Highland Crafts

[Dreadbelly]

I dunno... Sort of looked like the rolled box pleats like they use on the WPG kilts. A knife pleat rolled over and folded twice.

I could be wrong.

[Joe Gondek]

Nice going bill I can't wait to see it at our next Kilt night

If you look at Thompsons book (so you're going to wear the Kilt)there are instructions for shorting the hem of that kilt if it needs it.

[Frog]

I know I'm pretty new at this kilted "thing", but is it possible to have too many?

Frog

[cacunn]

I know I'm pretty new at this kilted "thing", but is it possible to have too many?

Frog

Yes but the number is greater than the national debt.

[way2fractious]

I know I'm pretty new at this kilted "thing", but is it possible to have too many?

At various times and places on this forum, a twelve-step program for the kiltoholic is published. It's pretty straightforward and involves buying yourself to the next level of addiction.

Unfortunately, my case is more serious, more convoluted, and perhaps terminal, because I don't usually buy the kilts and sporrans - I make them. That necessitates huge inventories of tartan and other fabrics, boxes of leather in many current forms, wide varieties of small mammal pelts, large assortments of small hardware, hand sewing supplies of all kinds, sewing machines (yes, plural), and comfortable chairs and table space to perform the necessary activities. This raw materials and equipment inventory takes lots of space. The finished goods also take drawer space, closet space, door handles, and anywhere else one can hang kilts and sporrans.

The addiction requires wearing a kilt in public only once and then making a new one for the next outing. Of course, each new one has to be a new and different pleating system than the last one. That's why I can only go out a few times a year - escaping my padded cell for a few glorious moments of euphoria - before descending back into the dark, cold, lifeless cell of my miserable existence.

How many is too many? Well, these stores went from one room and closet to a whole apartment, and soon to an entire house. The kiltography (and sporranography) I started reconstructing recently has exceeded one typewritten page already. It's hard to wear more than one at a time...

(Oh!? This was supposed to be the short answer...?)

w2f

[Panache]

I know I'm pretty new at this kilted "thing", but is it possible to have too many?

Frog

Ask Riverkilt or Hamish.

Cheers

[mbhandy]

All I know is it was not in the post when I got home just now.....

Joening, johensing, can't even spillell, oh what ever????????

Where is my kilt,

MrBill

[Dreadbelly]

At various times and places on this forum, a twelve-step program for the kiltoholic is published. It's pretty straightforward and involves buying yourself to the next level of addiction.

Unfortunately, my case is more serious, more convoluted, and perhaps terminal, because I don't usually buy the kilts and sporrans - I make them. That necessitates huge inventories of tartan and other fabrics, boxes of leather in many current forms, wide varieties of small mammal pelts, large assortments of small hardware, hand sewing supplies of all kinds, sewing machines (yes, plural), and comfortable chairs and table space to perform the necessary activities. This raw materials and equipment inventory takes lots of space. The finished goods also take drawer space, closet space, door handles, and anywhere else one can hang kilts and sporrans.

The addiction requires wearing a kilt in public only once and then making a new one for the next outing. Of course, each new one has to be a new and different pleating system than the last one. That's why I can only go out a few times a year - escaping my padded cell for a few glorious moments of euphoria - before descending back into the dark, cold, lifeless cell of my miserable existence.

How many is too many? Well, these stores went from one room and closet to a whole apartment, and soon to an entire house. The kiltography (and sporranography) I started reconstructing recently has exceeded one typewritten page already. It's hard to wear more than one at a time...

(Oh!? This was supposed to be the short answer...?)

w2f

We should hang out some time. I'd like to see your hidey hole.

[turpin]

Oh, bugger, MrBill, this thread has been a costly one for me. YAY! Now to see if there are any Buchanans in the family tree!

[gilmore]

Ack, I can't delete my post.