Kilt Do's and Don'ts

**berserkbishop** · 19th February 08, 11:23 PM

Originally Posted by Panache

This costume is designed to be looked at not from close range, but from the audience often hundreds of feet away. The same holds true with Stage makeup, it looks really scary close up.

Cheers

Jamie

Agreed, agreed. I have been in a number of productions, and I have looked quite scary up close. I guess it is just shocking to see out of context. I only hope no one in such a production would be ignorant enough to see that costume and think "hey, thats all it takes to dress like a highlander".

BB

**tartanlassie** · 21st February 08, 03:39 AM

hi, im new to the site and just made my way thru 155 pages (too nosey to leave it)

there`s some belters in here lol

**sharpdressedscot** · 21st February 08, 06:30 AM

All 150 pages?? Dang, I lost concentration at 15

**Nighthawk** · 21st February 08, 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by tartanlassie

hi, im new to the site and just made my way thru 155 pages (too nosey to leave it)

there`s some belters in here lol

Good gods!! I've been chewing through this thing for months!

**MacFett** · 2nd April 08, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by Nighthawk

Good gods!! I've been chewing through this thing for months!

I just took in all 167 pages in two days. Quite a read, sadly quite a few images are no longer around.

**Ayin McFye** · 3rd April 08, 08:19 AM

Originally Posted by MacFett

I just took in all 167 pages in two days. Quite a read, sadly quite a few images are no longer around.

Yeah, I've noticed that also. It's a shame that people delete them off or they just get moved from whatever server they initially linked them from. There were a couple of images that I absolutely loved, that are now gone.

BTW. Welcome to XMarks!

**Pancho** · 3rd April 08, 08:52 AM

One of the web photo hosting sites recently closed down.......can't remember which it was now. All photos posted anywhere online that were linked to that site were lost when that happened. Some magnificent work was lost in many areas. A shame!

**Ian.MacAllan** · 21st February 08, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by berserkbishop

. . . I only hope no one in such a production would be ignorant enough to see that costume and think "hey, thats all it takes to dress like a highlander".

BB

I think you have caught the point of that costume. G&S were masters of parody, and the costumer has exaggerated their parody to absurdity, probably the greatest compliment they could be given. Surely you have heard that imitation is the sincerest flattery.

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**McClef** · 21st February 08, 04:48 PM

Yes Gilbert had a talent for demonstrating the topsy turvey paradoxes in his plots.

But there is no indication whatsoever that Major General Stanley has any Scottish connections and he is a "descendant by purchase" of Cornish ancestors and you cannot get any further away from Scotland on the UK mainland than Cornwall!

Even the Cornish tartans are somewhat more recent than the 19th Century!

I know there can be a fashion for dressing productions up in costumes that are far removed from the original but at least when they do this they are consistent in their style. I take it there there is no similar costume for Frederick or for the Pirate King.