As my wife, Lady Livingston, prefers I wear the Livingston modern and ancient fly plaids with my PC, and given that they’re made from 16 oz cloth, I've been questioning whether a counter-weight, located in the left inside pocket of the PC, would help offset the weight of the trailing portion of the fly plaid (the portion of the fly plaid hanging to the back, as opposed to the smaller, diamond-shaped portion that hangs in front).

After reading many of the posts on this wonderful forum regarding attaching the fly plaid, and after much experimentation on my own, I now simply use a single straight pin to attach the fly plaid to my PC, and then pin the broach to the fly plaid, and not the PC. As my kilts are made by the lovely ladies at Ben Wyvis Kilts in Inverness, I also use the loop they affix to the fly plaid, attaching it to the epaulet button as an extra precaution.

But as those of us that wear the heavier fly plaids know, the weight of the trailing portion of the fly plaid tends to also pull back the left shoulder of the PC unless it has been compensated by the weight of a broach, or perhaps a breast-style wallet.

Other posts suggest attaching counter-weights to the front of the fly plaid itself to counter-balance the weight of the trailing portion of the fly plaid. This seems to make a lot of sense, but since I pin the fly plaid to the PC, I was wondering why this weight couldn’t just as easily be transferred to the inside left breast jacket pocket.

So, I’m wondering if anyone here has tried counter-balancing the weight of a 16 oz fly plaid, by simply adding weight to the left inside PC pocket of the PC. If not, I will report back once I’ve tried this.

Alternatively, if you’ve already got a solution to what I’ve hopefully described clearly, please share this with me.

Thanks,

Mike