Kilt Do's and Don'ts

**Coemgen** · 21st February 08, 07:36 PM

I don't really have a problem putting General Stanley in a kilt (maybe he was a general of a highland regiment?), or even making the proportions a bit exagerated. But this goes way beyond exaggeration.

**Chef** · 21st February 08, 08:11 PM

The term "artistic license" comes to mind.

**ChromeScholar** · 24th February 08, 07:06 PM

I saw that guy. I didn't say anything, either.

**Chef** · 24th February 08, 08:59 PM

You need to be careful telling someone.

I ran into a young man at the Long Island games last year (while waiting for a pie) with the basting stitches in. I thought I would be neighbourly and let him know. I also told him how to remove them. He thanked me. He was in front of me in line and so he was served first. After I was served I headed back to the tent and I saw his mother ripping the stitches out with her hands. I can't imagine the damage she did to the kilt.

**Monkey@Arms** · 24th February 08, 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by Chef

You need to be careful telling someone.

I ran into a young man at the Long Island games last year (while waiting for a pie) with the basting stitches in. I thought I would be neighbourly and let him know. I also told him how to remove them. He thanked me. He was in front of me in line and so he was served first. After I was served I headed back to the tent and I saw his mother ripping the stitches out with her hands. I can't imagine the damage she did to the kilt.

I saw a salesman at a kilt store (and not a cheap one either) just rip out the basting stiches in a stock kilt for me to try on, so I guess some kilts can take it. Certainly not something I'd want to do myself.

Best regards,

Jake

**McClef** · 25th February 08, 01:34 AM

I simply cringed when I read about basting stitches being ripped out by hand!

I would advise them to treat it like a surgical operation!

**CameronTaylor** · 25th February 08, 05:03 PM

I was careful last year when I told a local bartender he had his kilt on backward but he explained that while he knew it was, it was easier for him to wear it that way AND it held his bottle opener quite well with the straps facing the wrong way.
I know it's a Don't but he had a point.

CT -

**Nick the DSM** · 25th February 08, 06:14 PM

how DO you take basting stitches off properly?

i think i also see the point CT

**Chef** · 25th February 08, 07:20 PM

Originally Posted by CameronTaylor

I was careful last year when I told a local bartender he had his kilt on backward but he explained that while he knew it was, it was easier for him to wear it that way AND it held his bottle opener quite well with the straps facing the wrong way.
I know it's a Don't but he had a point.

CT -

He should wear pants.

**Riverkilt** · 25th February 08, 10:31 PM

Tell you what Zardoz,

I sure thought about it. But was in sales for 27 years and have been a therapist for 15 and the way I read him was that he was totally uninterested in outside input...he had a type A way of being in the world and a don't mess with me presence. Figured in a crowd this large someone would say something. He seemed to be with a group, but separated from it somehow. He was always yacking into that thing in his ear...looked like an escaped mental patient talking to himself or into some gizmo rigged out of aluminum foil...

What's so weird is that he probably arrived at the games that way. If he'd bought the kilt it woulda probably been a **** one and the seller would have taken the basting out to show off the kilt to best advantage.

I don't mind telling another guy his zipper is open. It just didn't seem wise to tell this man anything...just me...maybe someone did later and he tipped them a $20...who knows.

But my gut read was all wrong so I didn't intrude into his basted world.

Ron