Custom Throwin' Kilt

**The Wizard of BC** · 13th January 13, 11:12 PM

FYI

(I have removed some of my comments in this post as unkind.)

If anyone is interested I still have the first bolts of fabric woven in these Tartans in my shop.

Each kilt is built extra strong to withstand the abuse of runners and heavy athletes. There are bar-tacks at the stress points and double or triple stitching where needed. Each kilt has two hidden pockets designed specifically to be as in-obtrusive as possible, to keep a set of keys and a few cards out of harms way and placed where there is minimal chance causing chafe or getting caught on cabers or what have you.

Both the kilts in the pictures had been washed in a machine over 20 times before being photographed. They had not been touched by an iron once. The dark one had been left in my driveway and driven over for three days.

**RogerWS76** · 14th January 13, 02:41 AM

Steve,

Do you make a special kilt just FOR Heavy Athletics in Tartan fabric? I couldn't find it on your website but I would gladly accept direction.

**The Wizard of BC** · 14th January 13, 03:07 AM

In consultation with the athlete, yes. I don't just make a kilt and call it an athletes kilt expecting one kilt to be suitable for everyone.

But as the cost of the kilt is a very large component in the choice of an athletic kilt I am not known for them. Most of my kilts are a bit more expensive than those made overseas or from light cotton fabrics.

**Alan H** · 14th January 13, 09:06 AM

I have held Freedom Kilts in my hot little hands and inspected them carefully. They are the bomb. Both the contemporary kilt I looked over, and the many-pleated X Marks tartan kilts were built like nobody's business. Steve's handiwork doesn't come cheap, but it is without any shadow of a doubt, very much worth it.

**MacFhearchair** · 14th January 13, 04:16 PM

*nods* Those do look nice. I had sort-of imagined making myself one, but maybe I'm kidding myself about how much personal effort I'm ready to dump into this. It definitely isn't going to happen without me buying a darned sewing machine already.

Is a throwing kilt in actual wool just unheard of or what? I'm more partial to natural fiber than I can justify.

Let me mull this over a while, Steve. The season's a little ways off yet, anyway, and I'm catching up on holiday bills. Maybe I should promise myself one of your kilts as a reward to myself for an invitation to Pleasanton in 2014, which is my perhaps-overly-ambitious personal goal.

(...but not my most ambitious personal goal, mind you.) ;)

**Alan H** · 14th January 13, 04:27 PM

I don't think that Pleasanton 2014 is an overly ambitious goal at all. Pleasanton 2013...yeah. That's a bit quick, but 2014 is doable, iffin' you bust hump and train smart and all.

You Can Do It.

**MacFhearchair** · 15th January 13, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by Alan H

I don't think that Pleasanton 2014 is an overly ambitious goal at all. Pleasanton 2013...yeah. That's a bit quick, but 2014 is doable, iffin' you bust hump and train smart and all.

You Can Do It.

I told you about my really ambitious goal. ... pie in the sky type stuff. Oh had I but discovered this fascination 10 years ago.