Kilt Do's and Don'ts

[auld argonian]

I've seen that one before...the non-removed basting stitches.

Perhaps he figures that he can just return it after the event and get his money back. I had a friend whose wife used to do that all the time.

Best

AA

[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.

[Monkey@Arms]

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]

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]

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]

how DO you take basting stitches off properly?

i think i also see the point CT

[ccga3359]

how DO you take basting stitches off properly?

i think i also see the point CT

Very carefully and only after you ensure the kilt fits properly.

Linky.

[Chef]

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.

[Zardoz]

Ambling about with chow and one of those ear phone gizmos and a still basted kilt!

I resisted the temptation to ask/tell him...figuring with all that electonic ear wear he'd have a good reason for leaving the basting in...so just snuck a couple pics to share.

Ron

I find it quite funny looking, but I think I would have politely pointed it out to him, you know, help a brother out and all. His Borg implant may have been malfuntioning!
Now you'll have to wait till the next time he wears it, most likely at next years games!

[Riverkilt]

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