Those loops of ribbon on the sides.....

[skauwt]

i carefully cut mine off ,its best to avoid using them to hang your kilt and just use a proper kilt or skirt hanger to hang a kilt up ,
you may find using those to hang a good weighted kilt would actually distort its shape over time

[DougC]

Oh!! Those are for pulling your kilt up when it slides down........just kidding

that is just funny! I'll try that the next time my kilt slides down! Is the proper technique to use your thumbs or index fingers?

[ChattanCat]

Pictures would help.

[Schiehallion]

I don't use the tartan loops for the sporran as you are not able to pull it to the side onto the hip, when needed as for dancing ballroom hold. The loops I sometimes use as they do keep a belt in place and keep it from riding up over the top of the kilt. I agree that the hanging loops on the inside of the kilt can be detrimental to the shape of the kilt if allowed to hang for long periods.
Often military kilts had even more robust and longer loops on the inside of the kilt to hang from tent poles after being folded in two. Seldom if ever seen on modern kilts.

[wildrover]

They're for tying in your suspenders.



What, you guys didn't get suspenders with your kilts?



I have no loops on my kilt...nor do I hang it up...it is either around my waist, in a heap on the floor, or rolled up in a cedar chest. It took a bit of convincing and some solid proof, but I'm now firmly in the "kilts don't need belt/strap loops" camp. If you have them, you can put your belt or sporran strap through them if you like...I've seen a lot of people doing that...but it's not necessary.

-Sean

[JSFMACLJR]

Are these the loops you have in mind?



These kilts are shown in the closet of the late Duke of Windsor. I'm struck by several things:
1. Plastic hangers!
2. I have a kilt made by Chalmers of Oban a number of decades ago.
3. I count four kilts. Some XMarkers feel funny if they don't have a different one for every day of the month!

[sydnie7]

[snip]
3. I count four kilts. Some XMarkers feel funny if they don't have a different one for every day of the month!

And two in what looks suspiciously like the same tartan?

Why do you suppose one, and only one, of the sets of loops have knots tied in them? To make them all the same length? Oh, the questions we will never have answered. . .

Cool photo, thanks.

[JSFMACLJR]

And two in what looks suspiciously like the same tartan?

Why do you suppose one, and only one, of the sets of loops have knots tied in them? To make them all the same length? Oh, the questions we will never have answered. . .

Cool photo, thanks.

Two of each tartan: Royal Stuart and Balmoral.

[Standard]

1. Plastic hangers!
2. I have a kilt made by Chalmers of Oban a number of decades ago.
3. I count four kilts. Some XMarkers feel funny if they don't have a different one for every day of the month!

I was struck by the plastic hangers also, would have expected at least cedar hangers. I normally only hang my kilts up by the ribbons for a short period, and for longer storage hang them by clothes hangers with those built in spring clips. The ribbons can be used by folding the kilt into three layers just as it would be if you were wearing it. Then by folding in half, leaving the pleats on the outside and bringing the two ribbon loops together. After this is done you can hang your kilt from a peg, or hook.

[sydnie7]

Two of each tartan: Royal Stuart and Balmoral.

So the kilt on the left, and the middle kilt on the right, are of two different tartans? Whew, your monitor must have better resolution than mine!