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.

[OC Richard]

I forgot to add a photo of the new jacket & waistcoat combination being worn.

I bought the hose in one of the Glasgow shops I visited, they're Cheviot "Hebridean".

[Jock Scot]

Dual post, sorry. Post deleted.

[Jock Scot]

Just a thought, not a criticism, might those very nice hose look a tad better if the hose tops did not extend down the leg as far? Could a slightly different way of folding the surplus length of hose top with a smart extra fold in the hose top, be a smarter option instead? To my mind that would look a lot smarter and is a very traditional way of folding hose tops that are too long.Those with patterned hose tops need to be a tad creative with their folds to see the pattern to best effect and in my experience, it is not always possible.

[OC Richard]

You're right, the foldovers are pretty excessive!

They're Cheviot, and got in a Glasgow kilt shop, but they're longer than other Cheviot hose I've bought.

They're the first hose I've got in Cheviot's "Hebridean" range. Are they supposed to be like that?

I think I've told the story of purchasing a pair of Cheviot kilt hose at a California Highland Games, but when I got home I discovered that one was kilt hose length but the other one was shooting sock length! Luckily it was the Saturday of a two-day Games (we love those here) and I was able to exchange the hose for a normal pair on Sunday.

I do have a pair of ornate shooting socks I hardly ever wear, due to having to do a multi-fold thing.