I'm kind of proud of this outfit so I thought I would show it. This is a kilt that I made myself using just plaid fabric from the local fabric store. It's lined so it's very warm. It's pleated to the stripe which gives it about a 2 and 1/2 inch pleat depth. It has a very nice swing. I altered the jacket too and it's good enough for now, but I think I will alter another one because I'm not happy with the sleeve length. The jacket alteration took about two days and since it was (very) used I decided to wash it in woolite. I think that's what happend to the sleeve length, but oh, well....it only cost me 8 bucks so I didn't really lose anything.
The flashes are made from some fabric remnants and only took about a half hour to sew up. I found that a good pair of hemostats is really good to turn the flashes inside out once the sewing is done.
I wore this outfil to church yesterday and got lots of good comments.
I also got lots of comments about Scots being very hardy for wearing my kilt while it was snowing
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