Thoughts on Philabegs?

[Luke MacGillie]

I've seen one FB attempt at an event about a year ago. It looked very odd, bordering on girl's skirt-ish, compounded by the choices of t-shirt, socks and ad-hoc accessories with the appearance as if the fellow had purchased the cloth but hadn't yet had the time to sew a kilt together. He didn't look very confident, maybe because it looked like that at any time the whole thing might let go and fall to the floor.

I made the mistake of purchasing one off of ebay and am now stuck with it, it would seem. It is literally 6 yards of single width tartan, with a row of pleats sewn at one end, that you wear, somehow. Having "grown up" in reenacting wearing a double width 3 yard great kilt, I cant make heads or tails of it. Im just not able to free my mind away from actual historic garments enough to make this thing work.

[Taskr]

At one end? Sounds as odd as it must look. Certainly doesn't sound as if you could manage any type of under apron arrangement. I surmise is not feasible to take the pleats apart and start from scratch?

[kiltedsawyer]

I prefer philacheesesteaks.

[Manu]

This philabeg idea, seems to me, to be about as practical as wearing a great kilt. Cool if you're doing some sort of historical themed thing, but otherwise I say kilts became a tailored garment for a reason. If you wanna keep it economical, stick to Stillwater and sportkilts and that sort. Just my two cents.

[Luke MacGillie]

At one end? Sounds as odd as it must look. Certainly doesn't sound as if you could manage any type of under apron arrangement. I surmise is not feasible to take the pleats apart and start from scratch?

Its not worth the trouble for me, I thought I was getting a cheap Filabeg in Ancient Black Watch, what I got was what they call an ancient kilt, in ancient Black Watch.

I have a modern kilt, a box pleated one, and a couple pieces that I use for great kilts, this is just a painful reminder to do better product research