What's a 'tank'?

[Jimmy Carbomb]

Ok, I've seen this term over and over but I haven't been able to firgure out exactly what you guys are talking about. Is it an 8yd wool kilt? Or is it an abreviation for some specific vendor's kilt-like garment?

Whether anyone likes it or not... well... tough.

I did NOT coin this phrase. It was a strange progression from threads LONG ago on this site. I can't take any of the credit, as the follow-up posts took this and ran with it in their own personal observances. At the time, VERY few owned the things and it was difficult to make any comparisons with the light ones. As more and more purchased them and wore them... they just felt compelled to keep the term running.

Originally, it began as an explaination of what the difference was between the light, alternative kilts and the heavy woolen custom-made kilts. My only comparison was that the lighter ones felt like fiber-glass foreign sports cars when worn, and the heavy "traditional" felt like a "Tank". It's pretty easy to live with BOTH since they're used and enjoyed for different reasons.

Tank: a dense-woolen, three buckled, numerous pleated, fully lined, traditional, high-belted, substantial kilt. They "can" be machine made by trained kiltmakers that are not able to handsew anymore due to arthritis or other infirmities (and there are a few out there that I know well). They may be made anywhere on the planet, as long as the techniques are "true" and the finished product respects the heritage. It's a term of enderement for the weight, build and fit of a well-made and beautiful style of kilt.

Don't like the term or comparison? Change it... don't read it... get off my back.

[Archangel]

Whether anyone likes it or not... well... tough.



Don't like the term or comparison? Change it... don't read it... get off my back.

touchy, somebody had a late night, or early morning. I skipped work today too.

What's the significance of three buckles? My tank has three, my army has two. Yes, I prefer three, but what's the issue?

[bubba]

Ok Jimmy, if a 16 oz traditional is a tank, what do ya call a 22 oz military kilt, an armored brigade? Or maybe go with Dreads suggestion and call it Tartanic. ;-)

[gmcdavid]

What's the significance of three buckles? My tank has three, my army has two. Yes, I prefer three, but what's the issue?

Matt Newsome wrote about that elsewhere recently: http://blog.albanach.org/2005/08/why...lt-straps.html

Glenn

[McFarkus]

Whether anyone likes it or not... well... tough.

It's a term of endearment for the weight, build and fit of a well-made and beautiful style of kilt.

Don't like the term or comparison? Change it... don't read it... get off my back.

Well said!!!