What's under my kilt you ask?

[Sherry]

It's not too hard. You might want a wardrobe of them. ;)

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~rabzug1/sewing/slip.html

[furrycelt]

Not to kick off the "is the underkilt really a slip" thing again, but to a bunch of guys willing to tackle sewing an actual kilt, wouldn't knocking up a....let's phrase this carefully...supplemental kilt liner (yeah, that's the ticket!) be easy cheese? I mean, you could find a manly fabric like flannel and set it up so that it was shorter enough than the actual exterior kilt that it would be pretty inconspicuous...might help those in extreme climates who seem to worry about this and make some of the lighter weight kilts wearable in less than perfect weather.

Now why hadn't we thought about that before? Great idea. In the UnderKilt debates, someone came up with a variation and posted a drawing of it. I tried to look around thru the old posts, but I couldn't find it. It was like the UnderKilt but with large cut-outs on the sides. If I owned a sewing machine, I might tackle matching such a thing. It can't be hard, right?

-ian

[Wingbiker]

I placed my order for 3 JDez underkilts on Nov. 2005. I had some e-mails with Dave in mid-Dec. Some problem with tags. But, he said they would be shipped in a week or two.
Now I find out that I have waited too long to file a claim with Paypal. (Max 45 days).
Hope anyone interested can have better luck than I.

[Pleater]

I have made kilt liners which are about the same length as the kilt waistband by taking a length of fairly heavy cotton cloth and putting in a number of small pleats across the back - Kinguisse fashion - see William Muirhead's kilt in the tartan museum. These are opened flat at the hemline so they are more like unsewn darts than real pleats, they simply take in the difference in circumference between waist and hip+ease

I have held them in place using small safety pins, but - when I get round to it if I can get several cards of those little silver 'poppers', or other fasteners, I can sew them on - the flat part on the kilt and the bit with the projection on the liner.

I try to make them in toning colours for each kilt and they seem to work well, particularly for lightweight kilts which tend to fly in the wind. Although they are not closed tubes the heavy cotton and reduced circumference (compared with the kilt) seems to keep them in place even in a force 4 to 5 which is pretty blustery.