Argyll Kilt?

[BroosterB1]

Oh, but think of the ruckus the trads would raise! Might be worth it just for the fun!

[ali8780]

Good point.

Vava Voom!

And there's no way a guy could make it look the way a lady's curves would make it look. (Cest bon! vive la difference!)

Maybe we could prevail upon Ali to model some examples of ladies' skirts with the tartan on the bias. She could even wear those snazzy boots.

I think I'll go fix that drink now.

I think I've had enough picture taking to last me a long while (!) thank you very much

[Rob Wright]

I think I've had enough picture taking to last me a long while (!) thank you very much

Ok lads time to get oot them camera's and take your manliest kilt pic to post to persuade delightfuly charming Ali to post more, yet tasteful, pics


Rob

[ali8780]

Ok lads time to get oot them camera's and take your manliest kilt pic to post to persuade delightfuly charming Ali to post more, yet tasteful, pics


Rob

A girl could certainly get used to being called "delightfully charming!"

[turpin]

One could only get away with wearing such a garment on a trip to Diagon Alley.

[Barb T]

Ok - the problem from a kiltmaker's viewpoint is the stretchiness of the bias of the fabric.

-The "straight grain" of the fabric (the warp direction) does not stretch appreciably, and a kilt is cut with the straight grain running horizontally. The pleats lie parallel to the weft-wise direction, and that direction doesn't stretch much, either.

-The bias direction of woven fabric, on the other hand, is very stretchy. If you take a piece of fabric and measure 1 yard along the bias, mark it, fold it along the bias, and then press it thoroughly, I can virtually guarantee that the 1 yard will have "grown" to something more than 1 yard. You definitely to not want that parallel to your pleats. And it would be very hard to fold a nice crease on the bias and stitch the fell of the kilt without having the pleat stretch and grow as you stitched it.

-Although the apron of a kilt is backed by canvas and lining, continually pulling on it at the buckles would likely stretch out the apron if it were cut on the bias, and I would predict that, pretty soon, you'd have a poochy front.

[Carolina Kiltman]

bias cut is generally employed to fit a woman's curves

"Nothing so swerves from a straight line as a woman's curves, and having swerved, no might or main can ever make them straight again" ___Ogden Nash

Now having got that off my chest, as a theatre costumer (retired) I can assure any soul brave and wasteful enough of money and material (definitely not Scottish) that it would not hang properly. Neck-ties are cut on the bias so they will stretch and stay tied. That is why there was a discussion a while back on the tying of the ribbons in a Balmoral, and the need to stitch it to hold it in place after it is tied was necessary.

Fabric on the bias will stretch. One can make hose of fabric cut on the bias (it was often done that way as faster than knitting before the advent of the powered knitting machines.)

As to weaving (having done some of that also) a pattern on the bias, , while it would be possible to do a diagonal pattern, it would not look quite the same.

However, it is an interesting thought, sort of like the "X Marks" pattern in the pleating of a kilt.