40 year old Glengarry freshening

[Macman]

Yes indeed!

The kilt I was issued likewise is scarred from a quarter-century of being worn in a band that wears kilt pins.

There are various small holes and also rust-stains from the pins' fastening mechanism.

Why oh why do Pipe Bands wear kilt pins!?

There's no going back- once all the band kilts have holes and stains you have to keep wearing kilt pins to hide the damage.

When I joined our band, our PM measured me for a new kilt, which I purchased myself. All the other kit was supplied, including a kilt pin with two large posts to go through the apron. I took the pin to a jeweler to have the posts replaced with a more conventional fastener.

[OC Richard]

When I joined our band, our PM measured me for a new kilt, which I purchased myself. All the other kit was supplied, including a kilt pin with two large posts to go through the apron. I took the pin to a jeweler to have the posts replaced with a more conventional fastener.

Wow.

I've not seen a kilt pin made like that, but a couple of the bands I've been in have had cap badges that have two threaded posts on the back that you have to shove through the hat. Then there are two nut things you screw on. When you wear the hat this hardware is shoved against your head, a very poor way to do things.

I bought a pack of those little round felt pads with peel-off adhesive backs (to put on the bottom two edges of big picture frames so they don't scratch the wall) and stuck those onto the nuts.

Some modern kilt-pins have thick pins. The pipe band's kilt-pins' pins are not only thick but rough.

My vintage silver kilt-pins have smooth thin very sharp pins that don't damage the kilt.