Another Kasual Kilting Pic

[starbkjrus]

This is my four yard box pleat Albanach (a.k.a. Matt Newsome) kilt in the Carolina district tartan. On the way out to a casual dinner w/ my in-laws. This kilt goes from formal to burgers and beer in a heartbeat.


(Hmmm. This picture looks a lot better from the original file before it was uploaded to photobucket.)

[Mattg]

The pic looks fine! And that's a great kilt.

[Yaish]

For pics that are dark like that, Picassa (we discussed it in another thread -free from google) has some pretty good tools to lighten and balance the colors.

Did you wear it without a sporran, of did you add one later?

[starbkjrus]

For pics that are dark like that, Picassa (we discussed it in another thread -free from google) has some pretty good tools to lighten and balance the colors.

Did you wear it without a sporran, of did you add one later?

I was actually complaining about the pic looking fuzzy, not dark. It's fine color/contrast wise on my LCD / Apple Powermac. I have noticed before though that pix that look fine here appear a bit dark on my CRT at work.

I added the sporran before we went out - a black Freelander Mark III with one of Cavscout's sporran belts.

[GMan]

Dee,

Nice looking tartan. I do like the way that you look in it.

How did the In-Laws like it?

[Pour1Malt]

Slainte!

luikin guid!

[longshadows]

From what I can see your new kilt looks great. Nice tartan too.

What comments would you care to make about the "4 yard" model of kilt. Do you normally like a fullness and "swish" to you kilt? Do you feel you get this with only 4 yards? Someone commented on this model (not your kilt) that he felt it was too much like a woman's skirt--not full enough.

I'd like to hear your reflections and those of any other guys who have a 4 yard box pleat.

On the other hand, Matt is knows for his excellent craftsmanship and style, so I know it's a beautifully made kilt.

Thanks,

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Michael,

Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, all men's kilts contained about 4 yards of cloth -- some even less! I've seen old kilts that had barely more than 3!

So if your friend thinks that 4 yard kilts are "too much like women's skirts," then he's making a judgement on pretty much all men's kilts prior to 150 years ago.

The secret is to use quality, heavy weight kilting cloth. My preferred cloth (and that which Dee's Carolina kilt is made from) is 16 oz wool. Heavier is great, but not every tartan is available in a regimental weight. The lowest I will go in a 4 yard kilt is a 13 oz wool. I have one in that weight, and it still works fine. But I won't use 10 or 11 oz cloth, not in a 4 yard kilt anyway.

If your friend has seen 4 yard kilts in a light weight cloth, that could be where he is getting his impression from.

Aye,
Matt

[ozmeath]

"This kilt goes from formal to burgers and beer in a heartbeat."

Nice one.That's the way to do it, and it looks good. It's a tartan I'm not familiar with (there are many I am not!) but it's a more handsome tartan than some of the other 'new' tartans I've seen. Well done and well done Matt N.
Is there a difference between the North Carolina and the official Carolina? Is this same?

It was from :http://www.district-tartans.com/official_carolina.html

[M. A. C. Newsome]

That web site you linked to pretty much says it all. There is a tartan out there called "North Carolina" (as well as one called "South Carolina") both designed by the same fellow in Scotland (apparantly at the request of people from those states). But they are both airly new (past few years) and neither one of which has recieved any official recognition from either state.

The Carolina tartan, however, as the links from the above site indicate, has been adopted by official legislature as the tartan representing both NC and SC.

Aye,
Matt