Glasgow kilt shops August 2024

[OC Richard]

Here's the heavy tweed Argyll I purchased at the McCallum Bagpipes factory in Kilmarnock, with a waistcoat I already had.

[JPS]

Here's the heavy tweed Argyll I purchased at the McCallum Bagpipes factory in Kilmarnock, with a waistcoat I already had.

You could not convince me these weren't made as a set.

[OC Richard]

You could not convince me these weren't made as a set.

In person the tweeds are ever so slightly different, which didn't show up in the photo.

The buttons were another matter!

The waistcoat buttons were the same kind of imitation horn buttons, but oddly dull.

When faced with clothing problems I either sew my way out, or paint my way out.

Paint it was! I took off the waistcoat buttons and did a two-step paint job, first a rich deep brown then drybrush over with a lighter brown, reverse engineering how the jacket's buttons are painted. (Yes I think they're painted too.)

Top left: comparison of the jacket's buttons and a couple of the removed waistcoat buttons.

Top right: five of the waistcoat buttons have received their initial coat of shinier dark brown paint.

Bottom left: time to drybrush the lighter brown on the raised portions.



A closeup. You can see here that the waistcoat tweed has a bit less texture, and the colour is very slightly different.

I think the buttons came out nicely, an almost perfect match to the jacket's buttons.