"Well my kilt is pure wool - 35 yards"

**NeightRG** · 23rd October 11, 10:26 AM

Last night, Xmarks member KiltedCole and I went to the bar for a couple of drinks, kilted.
Met a guy (wearing jeans) who definitely seemed to know his stuff - said he dusted off his kilt just the other day to check fit and everything for the next Burns supper - see if he'd have to lose some weight by then to fit.
He told us about his gillies, sporran, sgian-dubh, dirk, hose and flashes. All of it sounded legit.
I was wearing one of my homemade 4-yard box pleat kilts, started talking about the style a bit, and he cut in with "Well my kilt is pure wool - 35 yards"

He didn't take too well to us politely telling him we couldn't imagine it being that long and he should maybe measure it along the bottom edge, and the conversation soon fizzled out after that.

How would he have ever gotten the idea that his kilt was that long?
The only possibility we could come up with was that he misheard somebody talking about great kilts being "Three-to-five" yards, and assumed because his tailored kilt is "great" that it was "Ther-tee-five" yards

In the end, maybe he's just one of those guys that wears his kilt below the knee (if you know the joke)

**piperdbh** · 23rd October 11, 10:35 AM

Or maybe he had a head start on you in the "couple of drinks" department.

**Aspiringloser** · 23rd October 11, 10:40 AM

Perhaps it wraps around the body several times and has really, really deep pleats.

**Jay** · 23rd October 11, 11:09 AM

Maybe that's what the Pakistanis told him...

**CopperNGold** · 23rd October 11, 12:31 PM

It would also come in handy to kilt his car!

Jocelyn

**Baldybrown** · 23rd October 11, 12:39 PM

Sounds like he's suffering from 'yardage' envy.

**Spartan Tartan** · 23rd October 11, 12:48 PM

Sounds like he ought to have sufficient material to adjust the size of his kilt before the Burns Supper.

**Laird_M** · 23rd October 11, 01:03 PM

I know women reckon that men like to exaggerate, but...

**Chirs** · 23rd October 11, 01:20 PM

In my world that sort of thing happens often - someone will have learned all the right words and can spin a great story but gets caught in some little detail (for us it's usually the pronunciation of a name) that makes you start to wonder.

**NeightRG** · 23rd October 11, 05:03 PM

By the end it all just sounded like the fisherman on a bad streak, telling the story of the time he caught one that was THIS BIG.

But hey - at least it sounds like he has a kilt, and wears it to special occasions. Maybe now he'll get a little more interested in his homework, become an XMarks member, and pick up a kilt of more humble yardage to wear casually.