Kilt belt loops?

**rcc0023** · 29th May 13, 01:41 PM

I never really thought about it that much. But it is good to know.

**creagdhubh** · 29th May 13, 01:44 PM

None of my kilts have belt loops as I tend to think they're a bit superfluous. So, I wouldn't worry about it so much. Do what you prefer.

**kiltedjoss** · 29th May 13, 03:49 PM

Some of my kilts don't have them. Some do and I ignore them. Don't need them. Don't use them. No.

**Carlo** · 29th May 13, 04:02 PM

I could see a reason for them with a tank that wasn't made for you. The weight in the back might try to slip under the belt.

**MacMillans son** · 29th May 13, 04:49 PM

For the most part, they are BELT loops NOT sporran loops. Whether you choose to use them or not is entirely up to you. I order them on my kilts for my BELT. I don't like having to adjust my belt during the day getting up and down from a chair or in and out of a car tends to make the belt, my belt at least, slide up and down on my kilt as it rubs against the back of the chair or car seat. Belt loops keep the belt mostly in place so as not to have to deal with that. I have had kilt makers who would not put them on a kilt except at gun point, and another kilt maker who would not leave them off without the same level of encouragement.

I know that someone has posted a photo of a kilt distorted around the belt loops before, I am not sure how that happened as a well fitting kilt is not held up by the belt but by the straps on the kilt. There should not be any weight on the belt loops to make them distort.

If you find them useful, then order your kilt with them on (actually, they will likely come on your kilt unless you specifically order them without), if not, feel free, as others have said, to not use them, take them off, or ask that they not be put on at all.

There is no wrong answer, just your preference.

**Tobus** · 29th May 13, 06:58 PM

Plus one to what Brooke said. I use the belt loops on my kilt when I'm wearing a belt. Not to hold my kilt up, but to keep my belt in place. I much prefer that to cinching my belt overly tight to stay put. Without the loops, my belt is constantly riding up in the back when I bend over or sit down. The loops are sized for a kilt belt, not just a sporran strap, so that's what I use them for.

**DyerStraits** · 29th May 13, 08:36 PM

I agree that on a properly fitting feilidh-beag (i.e. firmly but comfortably snug at the waist), using the loops for either a belt or a sporran is optional and I personally have recently taken to not using the loops depending on how I'm kilting up at the time, and sometimes not even wearing a belt. Of course both the original feilidh-beag and feileadh Mhor had no loops, so there you have it. To each his own.

**Nathan** · 29th May 13, 08:37 PM

Interestingly, I put my vintage military box pleat kilt into a kiltmaker for some alterations and it came back with belt loops even though it didn't have them when it went in and I didn't ask for them.

I don't use them for my belt because I was taught that was a tell tale sign of someone who didn't know what they were doing. I found that view odd, but still didn't want to look like I didn't know what I was doing so have never used them...