Kilt Travel

[scoutniagara]

I've travelled a lot with my kilt, but I've left it open on a kilt hanger in a suit/hanging section of my luggage or I've worn it. I want to do some travelling with a duffle bag/backpack and am looking for experienced travellers to share their wisdom. Ok, I see the post rolling the kilt apron down, pleats up, side to side. I'll try it, but wouldn't it roll easily from top down? Also, where do you find blue nylon hose? I'd try using some of my wife's old pantyhose, but their not blue.

[porrick]

I use a standard kilt roll/kilt carrier. Works great!

[turpin]

Same here - kilt roll carriers are great - you can carry them separately or pack them in a duffel and still have the kilt come out looking great.

[MacTavishOfJapan]

I'm going to have to buy one of them.

[Blu (Ontario)]

I've used a beach towel and elastic bands. I will buy a proper kilt carrier one of these days.

[turpin]

I've used a beach towel and elastic bands. I will buy a proper kilt carrier one of these days.

I've done the towel thing and then packed it in a duffel and it worked well. However, I have a cautionary tale, mostly related to my absent-mindedness but something to keepi in mind if you carry it separately.

On my last plane trip I had the kilt roll and carried it on, because I didn't want to trust that the airlines wouldn't lose the baggage. Then, on my return, I left it at the airport train station (travel weary and distracted). I got all the way home and about blew a gasket. Fortunately I hooked up with an excellent customer service rep for MARTA who tracked it down for me that same day and had it on the next train to the closest station to my house. Talk about a sense of relief!

I wrote her supervisor a glowing letter.

[Martin S]

If my suitcase is big enough, I lay the kilt in flat. If not I fold it top to bottom, or even fold it both side to side and top to bottom. If the rest of the belongings are packed in firmly so that nothing can move, a good woolen kilt comes out of the case some hours later, looking just as good as when it went in. Hang it up as usual and it won't even know it is away from home.

Martin

[Riverkilt]

Not sure how large your duffle bag is. I use a large "gym bag" when I travel. The kilts go right off the hanger to lay in the bottom of the bag. I do alternate the direction of the kilts if I have more than one.

If your bag is smaller, I've read that Utilikilts folds their kilts into 1/4 size for packing between their gigs selling at games. That is, folded as if on the hanger, then folded once more.

And, if you're staying at most motels there are irons in the room or an iron can be borrowed from the front desk.

And, if you can fit it in, a portable steamer will cure whatever wrinkling happens during travel - both for the kilts you've packed and the kilt you've been wearing.

Ron

[TheSp8]

The nice lady at Anderson's told me to fold it in half side to side and then fold the top down to the bottom. That was how they fold them to put in the cases to send out for hire. I packed my new heavyweight that way and the few wrinkles fell out after a couple of hours. My lightweight e-bay kilt got rolled and stuffed in one leg of a pair of hose. No wrinkles with that method and that kilt will wrinkle if you look at it hard.

YMOS,
Tony

[Martin S]

Just received a new kilt in a pastic bag in a cardboard box.
It was folded in four (quartered), ni stitching to hoold the pleats.
Out of t he bag, onto the body -- not a wrinkle.
House of Edgar 13 oz wool; great.

Can't speak for cotton or pv -- and I would not want one!

Martin