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    Late posting

    Hey folks-

    I haven’t had a chance to post my new kilt yet, received it at the end of last month from Rocky at USA Kilts. 8 yard 13oz Wool ancient Mackay. They crew at USA Kilts knocked this out for me in just over 2.5 weeks from time of order! Previously I had a crappy Pakistani acrylic kilt that I purchased on eBay. This wool kilt is 2000 times better and while a bit heavier much easier and more comfortable to wear!

    Anyway, any advice let me know! My mother is knitting me some custom hose in a few colors and the wife is knitting me some garters so the flashes will be history soon.

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    Great kilt. Now, how do I get your wife and mother to make me special items for my ensemble? I wish I had it that good.

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    Looks great. And this from a Sutherland no less.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike S View Post
    Looks great. And this from a Sutherland no less.
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    Nice looking kilt! If anything, I'd bring the hose up a bit and the sporran down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Piobair View Post
    Nice looking kilt! If anything, I'd bring the hose up a bit and the sporran down.
    I would disagree... I think both are fine... but we all have our personal style often based on our bodily shape.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Piobair View Post
    Nice looking kilt! If anything, I'd bring the hose up a bit and the sporran down.
    There we will have to disagree! His hose look perfect to me.

    The subject of kilt length and/or hose height comes up often, and I've shown a number of pictures from the 18th century through to today showing that these things have stayed fairly consistent.

    It's true that there's a quite recent fad amongst members of civilian pipe bands to wear their kilts down around their hips like jeans and pull up their socks all the way to their knees, leaving little or no knee showing. This flies in the face of around 300 years of tradition.

    I have hundreds of pictures, but one from each of three centuries will suffice

    18th century



    19th century



    20th century

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sparky McFizzlenuts View Post
    from Rocky at USA Kilts. 8 yard 13oz Wool ancient Mackay.
    Beautiful tartan and a lovely kilt!

    (Maybe one of these days you'll come over to the Dark Side- heavyweight tartan!)
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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