Bespoke kilt jacket

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

That would be Simplicity Kilt and Argyll jacket (Pattern #5029).

Just trying to be useful.

What a considerate posting. Most useful, indeed!

[Alan H]

I'm always leery of bespoke anything. It was a major leap of faith for me to commit to buying a custom kilt from Lady Chrystel.

I'm not leery because of the money. While I'm hesitant to spend a lot of money on clothes, I absolutely do understand the concept of top quality costs top dollar. No problem. No, what gives me pause is that my body changes shape pretty often.

Right now, relatively speaking, I'm huge. It's from all the weight lifting and throwing. The jacket that I altered three years ago and was moderately roomy at that time, barely fits me now. If I bought a jacket now that fit, I would probably swim in it in five years time when I've retired from throwing.

But that's just me. If you have a pretty "steady" body form, then you can count on wearing that jacket for a decade or two, and then it's absolutely worth the investment.

[Bugbear]

What a considerate posting. Most useful, indeed!

When I posted that, I thought there had been a forum policy change that non-kilt related discussion would no longer be allowed, and I was feeling quite out of place; hints the reference to usefulness. All a big misunderstanding.