Quote Originally Posted by Blu (Ontario)
Interesting form of recreation.

I saw a documentary a while back on a group of people that were trying to recreate conditions experienced by early settlers.... is this something similar?

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This event was a pre 1840 rendezvous which centers on the Western/Rocky mountain fur trade. Almost all of the people you see there do a Mountain man/Native american impression.... I'm not sure what documentary you saw, but it sounds similar as the idea at a rendezvous is to do things the old fashioned way whenever possible, such as cooking, sleeping in tee-pees starting fires with flint and steel, shooting muzzle loaders etc etc

Andrew: I ran into the same problem as you, whatever I did to the top half didn't feel right. Pretty much all the online instructions I found said the same thing "For the top half of the kilt, just use your imagination!"

But here is a link that helped me A LOT

http://www.tartanweb.com/greatkilt/w...greatkilt.html

Look how he twists the corners of the plaid and sticks them in his belt

As for the belts, I don't recall seeing any of the "ring belts" used historically, so I stick with the simple brass buckles for now. I have a big round one for the wide belt to hold the kilt on, and a much smaller squarish buckle for the much narrower "gear belt" which is pretty long, but mostly so I can use it for different purposes if need be.
As far as I'm concerned, the second belt is a necessity!

It's late and I must sleep.......good night everyone

Iain