Soldiers Cheat

[davedove]

I can't really shed any light on your query, but I have much the same question.

All the guides you see for donning the great kilt usually involve laying out the kilt on the ground, pleating it, laying down on top of it, then belting it on.

I really can't imagine that the kilt wearer's of old did it that way, at least not all the time. For instance, what if it was muddy out? Why would you put your perfectly good kilt in the mud needlessly? And it takes a bit of time to do it that way. Surely there was a quicker, simpler method.

[Nick the DSM]

i believe there's a method for you to be able to pleat the great kilt in your hands, standing up.

[An t-Ileach]

Cynthia:
Robert Griffing is a great artist, isn't he? He's obviously tried to get all the contemporary details right - like the regimental variations of the uniforms, and even with the Hurons.

davedove:
I was that line of reasoning that set me off in the first place

Nick the DSM:

I bookmarked the link to that when I came across it first: http://www.tartanweb.com/shop/pages/...reat_kilt.html.

It still seems a bit time consuming, and I think one would struggle a bit getting the aprons in the right places. I tried doing it a few times but I didn't find its results entirely satisfactory. Maybe I haven't given it enough 'times' in order for me to get sufficiently dextrous?

DSM wouldn't mean "Divisional Sergeant Major", by any chance?

[Nick the DSM]

Cynthia:
Robert Griffing is a great artist, isn't he? He's obviously tried to get all the contemporary details right - like the regimental variations of the uniforms, and even with the Hurons.

davedove:
I was that line of reasoning that set me off in the first place

Nick the DSM:

I bookmarked the link to that when I came across it first: http://www.tartanweb.com/shop/pages/...reat_kilt.html.

It still seems a bit time consuming, and I think one would struggle a bit getting the aprons in the right places. I tried doing it a few times but I didn't find its results entirely satisfactory. Maybe I haven't given it enough 'times' in order for me to get sufficiently dextrous?

DSM wouldn't mean "Divisional Sergeant Major", by any chance?

Hahaha! No, it means Drum Stick Massacre, its an old nickname of mine.

I think the only other thing i can think of would be a drawstring...