New Newsome 5-yard Knife

[Jerry]

Like others have said, the traditional kilts are designed to be worn with a sporran. The wider aprons need the weight of the sporran to help push them down when sitting.

[Kiltman]

Like others have said, the traditional kilts are designed to be worn with a sporran. The wider aprons need the weight of the sporran to help push them down when sitting.

Dido that! Sporrans serve more than one purpose.

[James MacMillan]

Nudge, hey McMurdo we're both one closer to getting our Newsomes. In regards to your concern, are you sure you're not bragging ? As McMurdo said it may just need getting used to. Until that time be careful. Unfortunatly I can't see you pics but I imagine it to be nice.

Hey Grant - Me too! Matt is doing a Leatherneck box me - Paid for and everything. It should be coming my way............. well sometime.....

Oh the jonesing!

[Captain]

I think the problem is you are not letting the underapron slide under the overapron. There needs to be separation when sitting. In the Hamish video, when you push down on the apron, it is making the aprons separate, consequently you have more material between your knees.

I don't know that that's any of my doing... it just seems that the wool holds to the other layers of wool pretty good... I'm hoping it'll smooth out with time... it's a little itchy right now...

[Abax]

It doesn't look too bad, but those of us that own 5 yard kilts have to be a bit careful how we sit.

Hmmmm . . . I don't have a 5-yard kilt, but I have one of Matt's 4-yard box pleat kilts. Sitting without exposing myself is not a problem. Like someone else mentioned, the underapron slides one way and the outer apron slides the other to drop between my legs - plenty of material there.

Abax

[M. A. C. Newsome]

It can not be denied that Matt does outstanding work. I'm just waitin' on my box pleat, with bated breath.

Working on yours as we speak!

[Freedomlover]

Alright... you asked for it...

The first pic is me right after sitting. The second is after I've pulled and pushed and tried to be as modest as possible. Images are linked so as not to have giant pics of me sitting in my kilt just pop right out on screen...

http://www.kevindooley.net/images/Cian/IMGP0943.jpg

http://www.kevindooley.net/images/Cian/IMGP0944.jpg

If you notice, there's a spot where the fabric bunches up... if that spot was about 4-5 inches lower, I'd have the extra fabric I need for the kilt to drape between my legs...

Any suggestions?

Not really. I have the same "problem" and it is only partly due to my waist line having migrated over the years. I have noticed over the last twenty years or so that all lower body garments tend to go north when sitting (which is a hugely good reason to rid ones self of the sort that tend to saw you in twain.) Solution? Nothing that I know of except have your kilts made mid calf length, and neither of us would even give that a fleeting thought. May I suggest some observations of how this sort of thing works? Go to a big mall, the food court say, and watch (as a purely academic exercise of course) how lady's skirts behave as they sit. The knee length variety especially will, without exception, rise quite considerably. This is due to a simple engineering fact of life: if you take an object whose top is at a fixed height and flex the plane the bottom must needs rise.

Anyway, your new kilt is very nice. I know you will love it for years to come.

[Panache]

Very sharp looking kilt! I also have a Matt Newsome 5 yarder and I like it just as much now as I did when I first got it in October of 2006.

As for sitting...

Here is a bit of advice your kiltmaker wrote on the subject:

http://blog.albanach.org/2006/06/sit-like-lady.html

Cheers

Jamie

[Robinhood]

Some woolens are less slippery than others.
Layers of tightly spun and woven worsted wool
will slide easily over each other. More fuzzy
wool will cause the layers to stick together.
If the underapron is really long, it will drape
over the left leg and make for even more
friction. (This extra length of fabric is
actually good, because it allows for plenty
of coverage when you sit.)

The trick to get the coverage you need
is practice. You need to sit quickly enough
that the fabric is slightly in motion so the
layers aren't stuck. Just as you hit the
chair (slightly after the rear sweep)
give the apron a quick punch so it drops
between your legs. At first it will feel strange,
and probably "ladylike."After doing it enough
times, it will become second nature, and
you will do it with enough "authority" that
it won't look ladylike at all.

[Rampant Lion]

When I sit with my either of my kilts I have to make a conscious effort to make sure I'm decent. When I sit, I sweep my pleats with one hand and push my apron down with the other. The kilt does show more knee when you're sitting; it's normal. The sporran definitely helps too.