Kilt Pin Rules

[Jimmy Carbomb]

But Jimmy, if you can do it IS it showing off to DO IT? RLJ-

RJ... that's not my call really. Also, I'm NOT going to be the one judging the legitimacy of the claim!

The answer to THAT question could best be addressed on "another forum".

Sorry about all this Casey. We tend to meander and go off on tangents! Hope you're actually getting some information about the whole kilt pin thing!!!

[bear]

Come on now, Bear and Andrew aren't here to defend themselves. Besides that is only at kilt nights

[RockyR]

Looks like he had enough to drink that he did not care...

[Hamish]

Actually, you should NEVER, EVER pin both the top and bottom aprons together - no matter how windy it might be! To do so is to court disaster. I have seen some dreadfully ripped kilts over the years where this has been done by guys who knew no better, and either the top apron or the pin itself was snagged on something in passing. Result: a torn kilt.

The average kilt pin is not heavy enough nowadays to act as a weight. If the wind is going to lift an apron it will do so whether you have a kilt pin or not. In this day and age, when many pins are made from light alloy or a metalised plastic, they are not much more than decorative. Several of mine are made from solid silver, but they are still not what one would call 'heavy'.

[Jimmy Carbomb]

I will clarify.

Casey, I only use the Pewter kilt pins available on a load of sites. They're HEAVY, decorative, and serve to keep the apron flat. Since I move a lot, and the weather is often quite windy here... that's the ones that work well.

By all means, use nothing. There are no rules, and I can offer no suggestions to better your kilt-wearing.

[mcnice]

and i m the crazy guy who sometimes pins both aprons together. before as said i didn t knew it better. then thompson adviced me.

the reason why i m doing it is the hanging of the inner apron when sitting. i noticed that the apron where to wide (covering hole left leg) so they won t come between my legs when sitting. i had to pull on the apron or make a quite deep chop, but i feel better in public without handlings between my legs.
it was also, when i didn t knew better, part of the magic of the kilt, that i could sit, spread legs without any touch, just like in trousers.
it is also more powerfull for the kilt if poeple wonders how to sit in an unbifurcated garment without having to adjust anything.

so i am as heretoc that my under aprons were cut to come just to mid of my left leg. and i m still searching for better cuts to improve the fall between legs. i enjoyed this manner of sitting on the UKs, and of course it s easier to get a falling apron when pleats come so far as they do on the utilis.

[beverlonian]

The only kiltpin rule that I'm aware of is to place the pin roughly 1.5 inches in and up from the open corner. I was corrected on this point quite some time ago.

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Thanks for that Blu - it's something I did not know and have often wondered whether or not I had it in the correct place.

[Casey]

Thanks folks,

Loved the tangent, too.

Casey

[Colin]

Come on now, Bear and Andrew aren't here to defend themselves. Besides that is only at kilt nights

Oh, Come on! How long are we going to keep this one around. I am going to have to see what Andrew has on his camera, as the really good photos haven't come out yet.

Thanks for the laugh though.

I still want to know why Heather was taking a picture up my kilt. Saucy girl!

[Casey]

Well!

No pin on the Flower of Scotland

Pin(clan badge) has come of the MacGregor Ancient and is now on my caubeen(This may be another issue. MacGregor Clan badge on an Irish caubeen. This is the problem with being a mongrel.)

Casey