Worst. Kilt. Ever.

[Riverkilt]

Guess I've been pretty lucky, paid attention to the feedback on this board.

Before I got here I had two Utilikilts with problems. A tan original that the hem unravelled in the first washing. Took it to a local seamstress who fixed it. Shouldn't have had to. My blue denim UK original arrived with a bad snap on the apron where its supposed to penetrate seven levels of denim...a chore for any snap. They sent me replacement snaps and I had to buy a snap setter tool kit. Shouldn't have had to. That was back when UK was farming out their sewing and not inspecting the finished products well before shipping them to customers.

And before I got here I bought two SportKilts - the gathered, pleated to the random kind in one length (too long for my short legs). Only a kilt pin seems to get them to look anything like a kilt. They are better when my lady wears them as a long tartan skirt. And, they arrived reeking of cigarette smoke. And, with a belly like mine the only thing that funny little front waist pocket is good for is to cut off and make flashes out of it.

Ron

[Pleater]

The only kilt I ever bought was to be used as a pattern - but it was more in the way of a dreadful warning.

It was of course an eBay special, man made fabric black watch sort of tartan. It was made of several pieces of flawed material joined together, had signs of previously being pleated differently, had been pressed with an iron set too hot so it was polished in a couple of places, was made with a piece of rigid reinforcement, some sort of plastic foam I think, behind the pleats so there was no posibility of shaping - the waist and hip measurements are the same.

The buckles and straps were not worth the bother of removing them to reuse, nor the material of sufficient quality to be reclaimed.

[CameronTaylor]

.. And, with a belly like mine the only thing that funny little front waist pocket is good for is to cut off and make flashes out of it.

Ron

Cool idea, now this thread is edumacational too

As far as worst, the Nova Scotia tartan "designed in Scotland", wrong advertised size kilt I sold on Ebay, having bought it there and never worn because it was about 4 inches bigger than it claimed on the tag inside.

CT - I'm gonna do that with my Hawaiian tartan SK.