box pleated kilt

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

All right, you have convinced me. The box pleated kilt is not traditional, it is a modern, historical revival style of kilt.

Thanks Wizard.

Ted, In my rather traditionalist opinion it is the fabric and the tailoring that define the traditional kilt, rather than the pleating. I hope that completely confuses you!
-Scott

[Fit2BKilted]

How about this?

Now THAT is a HAT!

Wherever did you lay hands on it?

[DWFII]

Not to be snippy but it's actually a highland blue bonnet. As for where I got it, my lovely lady made it for me. She knitted it and then felted it.

She also made the cockade...which, just between you and me, I would have preferred to be a little more Jacobite and a little less "French." But it's a labour of love all the way around and I'm not going to gainsay the cockade...I'll just have to invent a "backstory" to make it historically correct. Anyone got a ready backstory laying around that I can use?

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Not to be snippy but it's actually a highland blue bonnet. As for where I got it, my lovely lady made it for me. She knitted it and then felted it.

She also made the cockade...which, just between you and me, I would have preferred to be a little more Jacobite and a little less "French." But it's a labour of love all the way around and I'm not going to gainsay the cockade...I'll just have to invent a "backstory" to make it historically correct. Anyone got a ready backstory laying around that I can use?

How about "it was my communion ribbon...?"

[Bugbear]

Ted, In my rather traditionalist opinion it is the fabric and the tailoring that define the traditional kilt, rather than the pleating. I hope that completely confuses you!
-Scott

All right then, it is both a traditional kilt and a modern, historical revival style kilt, but only when being worn with a sporran, where the sporran is located in the front and center.

Guess that makes sense...

[Bugbear]

Not to be snippy but it's actually a highland blue bonnet. As for where I got it, my lovely lady made it for me. She knitted it and then felted it.

She also made the cockade...which, just between you and me, I would have preferred to be a little more Jacobite and a little less "French." But it's a labour of love all the way around and I'm not going to gainsay the cockade...I'll just have to invent a "backstory" to make it historically correct. Anyone got a ready backstory laying around that I can use?

Sure. You were fighting three Frenchmen and while pinned down, you attempted to bite off the ear of one of the Frenchmen, but bit off the cockade instead. They were laughing at you so hard that you were able to escape with the cockade of course.

[Nick the DSM]

Not to be snippy but it's actually a highland blue bonnet. As for where I got it, my lovely lady made it for me. She knitted it and then felted it.

She also made the cockade...which, just between you and me, I would have preferred to be a little more Jacobite and a little less "French." But it's a labour of love all the way around and I'm not going to gainsay the cockade...I'll just have to invent a "backstory" to make it historically correct. Anyone got a ready backstory laying around that I can use?

"My lovely wife made it for me"

[DWFII]

How about "it was my communion ribbon...?"

This seems like such an odd suggestion, I am guessing there's more to it? Why a communion ribbon? I never heard of such a thing.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

This seems like such an odd suggestion, I am guessing there's more to it? Why a communion ribbon? I never heard of such a thing.

In Ireland when the lad's go up for first communion they wear a similar rosette pinned to their jacket. Don't ask me why, because in all the years I lived there, and in all of the first communions I attended, I never thought to ask why it was done. For all I know it may be done here (USofA), but at home (Ireland) when I was out campaigning for FF, any number of people (Lucy, my housekeeper, included) would point at the rosette on my jacket and make wise cracks like "My but aren't you a big lad for taking your first communion, now."

And in the 1860s the knife-pleated kilt first made it appearance, worn by the Gordon Highlanders. (I thought I'd better add that last bit to get this back on the "Historical Highland Attire" topic!)