Kilt Do's and Don'ts

**Freelander Sporrano** · 11th April 06, 02:08 PM

Hasn't anyone a picture of Richard Branson with kilt on backwards? it's always talked about. I've never seen it that would be fun

**Andrew Breecher** · 11th April 06, 02:19 PM

Let's not forget this one:

Andrew.

**Rob Wright** · 11th April 06, 02:21 PM

Andrew that klingon pic isn't that bad, nice weathered looking tartan actually goes with the rest of the outfit!

Rob

**Andrew Breecher** · 11th April 06, 03:14 PM

Yes, but he's a Klingon....

Andrew.

**Robin** · 11th April 06, 03:28 PM

Stop it! ....please!!!!!!

**The Supreme Canuck** · 11th April 06, 03:45 PM

How about this guy:

Not right. Not right at all.

**MacConnachie** · 11th April 06, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by The Supreme Canuck

How about this guy:

Not right. Not right at all.

I blame these sorts of sartorial gaffes on the "Immaculate Deception" material girl, you know the one (like I'm going to post HER name, here!), given the inordinate hem/selvedge lengths of the kilts on the men in the troupe for one of her more recent shows.

Interesting that the word "travesty" is from a root word that has to do with not dressing particularly "well."

As to the various pics, the lads with the plaids wrapped around them (you know, the bedsheet and tablecloth pic) had the material coming off of their right shoulder. I was always told that only the wimmin folk had the option of wearing a plaid hanging or wrapped that way, and that a man always wrapped the plaid around the body from lower right to upper left, with tie-off, pin, or what-have-you located at the left shoulder. Either that, or wearing a filidh mor pinned up over both shoulders from the back, for the lads.

The pleats in the front trick is not all that uncommon, but with the wide range of examples available for all to see out there these days, I don't know why it is that some folks still get it wrong. When you're renting kilts for a wedding party, or shelling out hundreds to more than a thousand for enough kilts to clothe a groom and several groomsmen, wouldn't it be logical to do enough research to have that basic idea (aprons up front, pleats to the rear) down?