Contemporary vs Traditional

[jrmiller]

In practice, what I have seen at our local Irish festival are Utilikilts. They seem to be an easy choice for kilt wanna-bee's.

[Macleod91]

I have both a traditional and contemporay kilt, and i think that the traditonal are far more comfortable and publicly noticable as a kilt. mainly due to the tartan

[Iolaus]

I've noticed that some posters here are equating a solid coloured kilt with contemporary. That really isn't true as traditional kilts can be solid-coloured. (Saffron, Hodden Grey, etc...)

True that. My idea of a contemporary is one that has pockets, and one that sits on the hips rather than the waist. A traditional to me is one that is a wrap only, and designed to be worn higher.

[Bugbear]

I've just finnished putting a whole lot of work into making my Stillwater wool kilt a lot more like a traditional kilt; mostly the insides. It fits so, so, much better. Though, I was very thankful to finally be able to sew the lining back in because I had been putting it on to see how it fit before that.

I prefer the high waist fit on a kilt, and even my canvas Buzz Kidder is a higher waist than some of the other contemporaries. I would prefer that it have the fell sewn down further, and the waist be a little higher, but I have what I have.

My achrylic Stillwater is next on the chopping block, so I haven't done anything to the canvas kilt.

[Bugbear]

I like both.