Okay, I'm in...

[dfmacliam]

Hello and Welcome from Texas

[ChattanCat]

from PA

[Dirka Skene]

Welcome from Salisbury, NC. Glad to see I'm not the only one with a .5 kilt.

[vipermcgee]

Welcome from Salisbury, NC. Glad to see I'm not the only one with a .5 kilt.

I once said I had only .5 kilt, however, for a very good reason. Mine had been ordered and paid, but was still in production!

Anyway, welcome from LA (lower Arkansas)

Robert

[BagpiperDon]

I have 2 tartan kilts...

• My Mackay (the clan I chiefly identify with), my first kilt which was the maker's first kilt, and over the past 11yrs having gotten back into piping doesn't fit me quite as it once did. A kilt-maker friend of mine, who is one of the 3 local friends who suggested I join X-marks, may be adjusting it in the coming months, but refitting and doing whatever may be possible to correct some of the less-than-usual (I'm told) first kilt issues. Essentially considering this as my 'dress' kilt, I save wearing my Mackay for formal performances/occasions.
• A used Douglass that fits me rather well which I gained settling a legal matter following an unfortunate experience where a formerly trusted individual/friend, lets-just-say, 'overly borrowed' my Mackay. Don't mess with a fella's pipes, lady-friend, food, vehicle, and especially ya DON'T MESS WITH HIS KILT While I am striven to take care of my Douglass just as I do my Mackay or any other kilt, I wear this at times I have concern for the safety of my Mackay -- nothing against Douglass, but while it is important to me it is not as-important to me as my Mackay.

I have a casual kilt -- "0.5" -- made by a local kilt-maker as a test-garment toward competition to a certain advertised 'un-bifurbricated' local garment manufacturer. This was a good number of years ago when said other-company was still in the fairly early stages of building their business, cult following (my teasing word) and mass public misunderstanding of what is and is-not a kilt. The kilt-maker's intention, as I understood, was to grab the market-attention the other company had already developed, but with a better garment that was less expensive and fit w/in the characteristics of a casual-kilt to actually be a kilt instead of a product that misapplies the term. Said local kilt-maker had to change their focus around that time, and this casual-kilt product never got off the ground. For fear of being recognized as wearing the other garment company's product, and the mass misunderstanding that goes with with it now among society, I previously didn't have the nerve to wear this thing outside of my abode ... which has rather stuck with me.

I would like to add a few solid-colour kilts, an Irish National, a Blue Mackay (aka Morgan), and perhaps a few others to my collection. Like getting new pipes & other supplies I need and resuming lessons, more than time that will money. Buy my CDs I need new pipes & etc.

[NewEnglander]

Welcome from Connecticut!
I like the idea of counting half a kilt if you've ordered and paid...perhaps it'll help with the jonesing!

[BagpiperDon]

Found it... finally -- Thanks!
(ghesh, I thought I was more tech-savvy than that)

click on quick links and then on 'edit signature' you'll find an option of 'edit avatar'.

[Bugbear]

Welcome.

[SteveB]

Hello and a warm Celtic from Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. I hope you will join with the Pipes and Drums of Xmarks social group, and participate with the WACKOS, in their kilt nights.

Slainte

[GDub]

Welcome from the San Francisco Bay Area!