What was your first kilt?

[setboy]

What was your first kilt and why did you pick it?



Raphael

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Very first was a gray Sportkilt, the old style before they offered sewing down the pleats. Main reason was the price and the decent rep on this site. That being said, I rarely (maybe never) wear it any more. SK's, at least the solid color old style ones, are more than vaguely skirt like. And to be honest they are more suited to very casual/competititon wear. Mine is also very prone to wrinkling.

[Alan H]

Stillwater Standard, Black Watch, 2004 model....

Affordable
a "Safe" tartan
great recommendations from X Markers

IT's still hanging in my closet whispering at me sew down my pleats, sew down my pleats

[GMan]

Co Fermanagh from House of Edgar.

Chosen because that is where my paternal family came from.

[Mr. Kilt]

4-yd Blackwatch PV kilt from Bear Kilts. I liked the tartan, and the price was great too. I got it about 3 years ago and I still wear it regularly.

[highlandcelt]

My first kilt:I bought a hand made kilt from an old man that used to make them and sell them at "Rendezvous" (5 day camps of people living in the pre 1840's of America. Mountain men, indians, etc. VERY primative camping and living.) Sadly to say, he has passed on.
It is a wool kilt done in the old "Braveheart" tartan, 9 yards. Very thick and heavy. It is not stitched, so the pleats have to be set by hand, and takes about 20 minutes to put on with a belt and a kilt pin. But no tartan fly.

[Wulfestieg]

My first was a great kilt of no particular tartan. It's a lovely wool/poly blend (70/30 if I remember correctly) in a brown, tan, and white pattern. Nine yards, pleated fresh every morning.

[Brasilikilt]

My first kilt was a black standard Utilikilt clone made by my mother in law, in Brasil at my wife's request as a birthday present. The waist is too big for me, but I wear it anyways
After she made it she said NEVER AGAIN! as I think it was a pretty complicated bit of sewing :-)

[Seaforth Piper]

I transferred from the Royal Canadian Engineers to The Seaforth Highlanders in the fall of 1976. I'd been on a bridging exercise where several sappers had lost fingers or parts of fingers - pinched off by the Bailey bridge sections...

I thought "Jeez,I'm a piper - I NEED all my fingers" so the Infantry seemed a safer bet (hit a mine and yer ALL gone, none of this 'piece-at-a-time stuff') plus my dad and grandad had been Seaforths...

So I'm standing in the QM with a kilt (Kilt #2, Seaforth and HLI) wrapped around my hams... I must have looked doubtful because the Sergeant, he says: "Two words, lad - 'Dysentry' and 'Fornication'!

I was sold. 6 months later I was learning how to make them.

[Blu (Ontario)]

I did a bit of research and started with an 8 yard 16oz worsted wool kilt made by Rose MacIsaac of Nova Scotia. A very sturdy kilt that I still wear often.