Your first kilt!

[Riverkilt]

Oooooh, another Zonie!! From Cottonwood, home of Mt. Hope where I score buffalo and elk burgers.

Tell us more about the kilt? Pleat shot? Comin to Phx for the games in Feb? etc.

Okay...duh, saw the SportKilt emblem peeking out from behind the belt...MacQuarrie Sportkilt of course. Them emblems come off easy with a seam ripper if you wanna.

Ron

[McMurdo]

My first kilt was given to me by my dad, here he is wearing it, circa 1950 in Aberdeen, the kilt was made by A&J Scott and co.


Here I am wearing it with my Prince Charlie

[Chef]

The first picture of me in a kilt was probably taken at the age of four; I was the ring bearer at a wedding. Although my Gran might have an older one. I'll need to dig it out and scan it.

[Ozman1944]

My first Kilt, Blackwatch.

Feb. 2007

[Keys MacQuarrie]

Tell us more about the kilt? Pleat shot? Comin to Phx for the games in Feb?

Aye, sir. I'll be there...gathering tips since I hope to compete later in the year in the Verde Valley and Prescott.

And yes, it's a Sport Kilt. I know, I know...it's not very traditional, but it's perfect for warm Arizona weather and it's in the right tartan.

[Zardoz]

Here is , I'm pretty sure, the first picture of me in a kilt. It's in October or November 2005 at the Texas Ren Fest, and the lovely lady is my friend Jennifer who works there sometimes.



Except for the shoes, dress belt , hose, (J.Higgins) and the beret, (ROTC) everything I have there came from Sportkilt. I'd found and utilized the links page on Kilt Day.com, but I had not discovered XMarks yet, so I was making it up as I went at the time!

[Riverkilt]

Aye Keys, the right tartan will open the wallet every time. Just like my first was a Macdonald Sportkilt. Don't let the Arizona rabble scare you off...we're a pretty rough bunch of misfits and dang proud of it....I think...I mean speaking for myself...like pretending I know what I'm talking about....but hey...just be thankful my belly and Retro Reds new hairdo aren't on the same body....back off you photoshop junkies...back off...


And Zardoz....been to that Texas ren faire once...my first I think...a lot of fun.

Ron

[BoldHighlander]

...but it is my first kilt (circa 2003-04).



I know it looks black, but it's actually Black Watch.
Not a tailored kilt, just a bargain that I no longer wear.
In the queue for a Matt Newsome hand made

[way2fractious]

This Sportkilt was my first ever kilt, purchased in 2002. I got used to wearing it around the yard and took it along as my off-bike outfit on a two-week bicycle tour across Nevada and Utah that same year.



The Sportkilt was too lightweight to consider for hiking, backpacking, and camping, so I made my own for those purposes. My first homemade kilt was from large check, cotton, upholstery fabric. It's public debut was at the company Christmas party in 2002. (The jacket, shoes, sporran, etc. has been upgraded since then. )



The Sportkilt was donated away long ago, and my closet is now filled with homemade kilts in a variety of fabrics and tartans and pleating styles, along with various fabrics (including tartans) awaiting their turns under the needle.

w2f

[cessna152towser]

First kilt I ever owned was a well worn Black Watch from a thrift shop, of which I do not appear to have any pics. Once I decided I liked wearing a kilt and would wear it more often I donated it back to the same thrift shop and had a new Black Watch kilt made to measure, just in time for Le Jumelage in 1993, our town's annual twinning event.

Here I am at Melrose Abbey with my opposite number, Jean-Andre Vandelannoote, Greffier of Bailleul in Northern France, resplendent in that first bespoke kilt, in September 1993. As you will see I had yet to acquire an Argyle jacket and a belt. The kilt eventually went to the USA early in 2006, via the x-marks kilt adoption agency as it no longer fitted me. Hopefully some one out there still wears it.