The original kilt style?

**figheadair** · 10th February 11, 06:47 AM

Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome

And I am still interested in the concept of using the tape at the waist as a fastening system. I'm wondering how such an arrangement would work. Given that the aprons are also pleated to make them more narrow, Peter do you have the feeling that the aprons would have overlapped as in a modern kilt, or not? I can't really tell from the photos how that's supposed to work.

But a kilt like this should be fairly simple to recreate. I have made something similar to this before for reenactors, but without the binding tape closure system. If I could figure out how that was intended to work, it would be a nice thing to offer, especially since the cloth I have to work with cannot be used selvage-to-selvage and I have to come up with some way to finish off the tops of the kilts.

Matt.

There are two aprons as we'd understand them so they would overlap as today. I didn't measure the tape exactly but can easily get that checked. They were 20+ inches each side so I guess could have been passed around the body and simply tied at the front of side; on the closing side seems more likely in which case one tape is/would have probably been longer.

**Cynthia** · 10th February 11, 06:58 AM

I can't comment on the kilt, and I'm no expert on historical garments, but I had wondered about the tape, too. 18th century petticoats were tied on using something similar. I couldn't tell how old it was, but found it interesting to see. Just thought I would mention it.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 10th February 11, 08:38 AM

Originally Posted by figheadair

Matt.

There are two aprons as we'd understand them so they would overlap as today. I didn't measure the tape exactly but can easily get that checked. They were 20+ inches each side so I guess could have been passed around the body and simply tied at the front of side; on the closing side seems more likely in which case one tape is/would have probably been longer.

A wrap-around type scenario seems like it should work. I couldn't imagine it typind directly in the front with the overlapping aprons, but if it passed around at least once and tied on the side that would work well.