Slippage of the belt...

**Hamish** · 25th August 07, 05:41 PM

This is precisely why I like belt loops on my kilts!! OK, a properly fitting traditional kilt should not require a belt, but I think that if a belt is not worn the kilt looks 'naked' or 'lacking' - unless, of course, one is wearing a waistcoat (when, as we all know, a belt should not be worn!).

Maybe for an hour or two there is no problem, but if I wear a loop-less kilt with a belt all day, I find myself having to adjust the one with the other several times. It is not serious, just an annoyance I can live without.

No, give me belt loops every time!

**Rampant Lion** · 26th August 07, 09:02 PM

My belt also rides up in the back when I sit, which is why I take it off when I drive. Anyway, I've found solution that works most of the time... I just sit up straighter. It seems to work for me anyway.

Another thing.. about the belly button being below the natural waist. My belly button is covered by the bottom of my 2"-wide belt when I wear it at my natural waist. Maybe it's because there is less than 3" between the top of my pelvis to the bottom of my rib cage. Just saying.

**James MacMillan** · 27th August 07, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by Hamish

This is precisely why I like belt loops on my kilts!! OK, a properly fitting traditional kilt should not require a belt, but I think that if a belt is not worn the kilt looks 'naked' or 'lacking' - unless, of course, one is wearing a waistcoat (when, as we all know, a belt should not be worn!).

Maybe for an hour or two there is no problem, but if I wear a loop-less kilt with a belt all day, I find myself having to adjust the one with the other several times. It is not serious, just an annoyance I can live without.

No, give me belt loops every time!

:yes:

**Perldog007** · 27th August 07, 02:31 PM

I am at least 100lbs overweight, so your mileage may vary. In reading "The Art of Kilt Making" there is a blurb on how belt loops are sporran loops and about how putting a kilt belt through those will eventually deform the kilt.

Since reading that, I put my sporran belt through the loops, put my kilt belt on loosely over top. My belt more or less is a holder for my cell phone, knife, key keeper, flash drive, whatever.

Sometimes it does tend to creep up in back, I just push it back down.

My FK will ride down a bit without any belt, but only because I shrank a bit during the Jones, so I crank that down a bit. My UK stills stays up pretty well without a belt, so I just wear it almost snug on there.

But on my Stillwaters' I don't put it through the loops and wear it fairly loose. Working out so far.