My Kilted Roadmap.

**David in Maryland** · 25th November 04, 05:15 AM

Dreadlock,
Check out the picture of me in my gallery. I wear my Great Kilt quite often, and it only takes me about 30 minutes from the time I start to pleat the kilt to the time I am completely dressed.

**Blu (Ontario)** · 25th November 04, 05:40 AM

I think Bear has the right idea. The only way to get rid of this particular itch is to scratch it. If you decide that the setup time and bulkiness are a bit much, have the fabric made into a little kilt(s). Perhaps a traditional with fly plaid or gulp a pair of trews.

**Graham** · 25th November 04, 05:50 AM

David, no offense, but you've ruined the idea for me, 30 minutes!!!!

What I love about the kilt is the speed and ease of which it allows me to dress in the morning, especially the ones with velcro fasteners.
a quick wrap and stick and I'm off!!

Guess I'm a lazy person when it comes to dressing.

**Jimmy Carbomb** · 25th November 04, 06:02 AM

I personally love the looks of a kilt with a THICK over-the-shoulder, hip-gathered plaid. When it's done right, it looks similar to a great kilt but MUCH neater and clean.

I'm not sure if you can see it in my Gallery, but Swanny is wearing this set-up at the Maryland Renn Faire gig. He's the blonde guy with the red kilt at the front of the stage. It didn't take me long to make the kilt, and took his wife even less to make the plaid gather.

It's worth consideration so that you can actually wear the thing more often.

**bubba** · 25th November 04, 07:27 AM

You can stitch the pleats in place on a Great Kilt to cut down the time it takes to put it on, but it seems to me the old highlanders had a way to dress quickly, maybe a cord and loops on the inside to gather it in a hurry. Somehow I can't see em laying out the kilts and pleating em when they needed to move out in a hurry.

**Dreadbelly** · 25th November 04, 08:18 AM

A great kilt is so much more then a kilt. And yes Bear, I plan to wear one as if everybody else is wearing one. Like it or not, it is a big part of our kilt heritage folks, and should be just as acceptable as the little kilt. Especially among other kilt wearers. There are far to many kilt wearers that feel it is merely a period piece, a costume, something for the Ren Faire. And it's NOT. No kilt is a costume. No kilt should ever be a costume. And I believe that kilt wearers that wear kilts every day are the last people in the world that should even hint that a great kilt is best left for costume status. I believe that it comes down to being comfortable with conformity. A lot of us have big enough balls to walk into a market wearing a kilt. It's different... But can be made into acceptable different. How many of us here could saunter into a market and go shopping in a great kilt and never give it a second thought? How many of us that wear kilts, if we were in that market, in our kilts, and saw somebody in a great kilt, would think to our selves, even for a brief moment, "that's a strange fellow" all the while oblivious to how out of place you might look...

**bubba** · 25th November 04, 09:02 AM

Doc, the main thing keeping me from wearing a Great Kilt is I'd roast in that much wool. Granted it would be ok on a cool day outside, but inside where it's warm it would likely be an oven. On a truely cold day it would be awkward wearing a heavy coat with it. That being said, if you really have a jones for one, do it. As others have said, if it doesn't work out you have enough material for 2 little kilts.