Big Men

[Prester John]

Okay

If you are a Big Guy, that is, 6 ft tall and around 300 lbs, this question is for you.

I'm plotting to get my brother a kilt sometime in the New Year. He's a big guy. He is 6' tall, 315lbs, and has a 49 or so inch waist.

I know he's worried about getting comments such as "Fat Bastard" and therefore not very keen on the idea right now, but my sons and I, and my wife, all agree, he'd look great in a kilt, and it couldn't but help his life in a multitude of ways (The Power of the Kilt).

Please tell me, as I am short and stout and unaware, of:

• What I should avoid
• what I should consider
• what I should watch for

You are the experts, and I really want this to work for him. Help me if you can, and accept my apologies if I'm making a bigger deal about this than it is. You guys know me by now!

[Rigged]

I'm 5ft. something and a half and weight in the upper 200s.

Avoid bright colors and "to the stripe" pleating.

Darker colors and vertical lines are more slimming.

Fact is a man of any size looks better in a kilt (unless he's drooling grease down his bare belly and carrying a turkey leg in one hand and a small child in the other).

[Prester John]

The "grease drooling" image really made me laugh.

Then I couldn't get it out of my head. Agh!

Thanks Rigged, for the advice. I was thinking Black Watch, for simplicity's sake.

Hopefully, with my sons' help, I'll be able to pull it off for him.

If you have any other suggestions, pass them along please!

[Big Paul]

I agree with Rigged.

The biggest thing is to do it with confidence! When people see a confident man in a kilt, their attitude changes.

He could always look the nay say'ers in the eye and ask if they have ever had there butt kicked by a man in a skirt.....

[Prester John]

You mean "skirt" of course. haha

I think that's a great comeback...and he is big! :smile:

[The Wizard of BC]

There is one other thing that my business has taught me.

Large men should try to wear their kilts as high as possible. A kilt worn as a hip-hugger with proper hem length accentuates the horizontal.

I know that most large men feel that their waist is under their belly, but it's not. And are suprised the first time they wear a kilt above their navel. Their belly is less obvious, the kilt hangs right, and when they look in the mirror, for many, it's the first time they have looked like everyone else.

Plus, with a kilt that is approching 25" wide and is only 18" or 19" long, it is almost impossible not to answer "the question" in a very graphic manner.

[mbhandy]

Fact is a man of any size looks better in a kilt (unless he's drooling grease down his bare belly and carrying a turkey leg in one hand and a small child in the other).

Hope your brother is nothing like that ( but I am still LOL. :grin:

[GlassMan]

Fact is a man of any size looks better in a kilt (unless he's drooling grease down his bare belly and carrying a turkey leg in one hand and a small child in the other).

And let's just hope he doesn't forget which hand his food is in!

[Nick]

I'm not a huge guy, about 5'9", ~200 lbs. I used to be 230, then it dropped to 175. I'm back up to 200 now, but I still fit in all the t-shirts I bought after I lost all that weight, so I think it's just from muscle development. I hope and pray it is, at any rate!

Still, I've got something of a belly. So, when I measure for the tank I'm going to order in the next month or so, should I measure at my navel or just above my navel?

[Prester John]

A good question for our kiltmakers!

If you don't get a response here, take it to the kiltmakers forum.

I'm interested in this too, though for a gift for my little "big" brother.