New member starts an X-Kilt

[BEEDEE]

Looking good and congratulations on your first X-kilt.

Brian

[SoldierSpike]

Looks great, but as someone who wears this particular flavor of Digi-Cam on a regular basis, it's sideways, not that many other people would notice.

Marc

[Alan H]

NICE job! Congratulations...

[Arlen]

Fantastic job. I think it looks really great.
Well done!

[McMurdo]

Looks great wear it with pride.

[Gerald_G]

Hi again all. I've been away on holidya for a bit.

I wore this new X-kilt on my backpacking trip over the Canada Day long weekend. For various reasons, I did not wear it on the hike in, but put it on for the trip back out to the car.

We met a number of hikers on the trail and chatted about trail conditions, snow in camp, routes etc. No one made a comment whatsoever about the attire.

Then we met a group going up the trail on horses. After explaining to them that the trail was closed to equestrian use at a junction up ahead, and them suggesting that their horses may not be able to read the sign, one of the guys, says "nice skirt".

I told him it was a kilt, and that he'd been the first to comment on it all day. I mentioned that I kept waiting for the "where's you bagpipes?" question, but he seemed to miss the reference.

After a few more minutes of trail chat, their group headed up the trail with one final "nice skirt" thrown over the shoulder.

I was impressed witht he comfort of hiking in a kilt. I do need to find a belt of some sort with a buckle that is not going to get too much trouble by the backpack hip belt. I'm thinking of something made from webbing should work well in a backpack wearing situation.

[Gerald_G]

Looks great, but as someone who wears this particular flavor of Digi-Cam on a regular basis, it's sideways, not that many other people would notice.

Marc

Thanks for the tip Marc.

Would it be even possible to make it correctly ? The pattern is this way on the cloth running lengthwise, which would mean. I'd have to sew a number of short pieces (widthwise) together to make a kilt out of digi.

I (of course) had no idea that there was a "Sideways" to the pattern.

[MysticMead]

Hi again all. I've been away on holidya for a bit.


Then we met a group going up the trail on horses. After explaining to them that the trail was closed to equestrian use at a junction up ahead, and them suggesting that their horses may not be able to read the sign, one of the guys, says "nice skirt".

yeah.. you'd kind of have to expect a comment like that out of someone who plans on taking horse into an area closed to them.. and saying his horse couldn't read... sounds like a real winner there.. or possible future nominee for the Darwin award

[Alan H]

Interstingly, I wore a tartan casual kilt backpacking this past week and only got one comment...a "nice kilt" all week. All the packers we saw, herding horses into and out of the wilderness paid it no attention at all.

[Kiltman]

Welcome from Eastern Washington. On to your next kilt!