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I have heard numerous times on the forum that the function of the kilt pin is to weight down the front apron. I suppose this may be true only if one is wearing an extremely light weight kilt (or has a rather large and heavy kilt pin!).
However, if one is wearing a traditional kilt made from even medium weight cloth, and wearing a typical kilt pin, which may only be a few ounces at best, the amount of weight added to the kilt apron is really insignificant.
Plus, that implies that there is a "need" to weight the kilt apron down, which there is not. Unless one is wearing a kilt made from an extremely light weight fabric, the weight of the cloth itself should keep the apron down just nicely in anything but the strongest of winds (when that 2 oz kilt pin wouldn't help at all anyway).
A kilt pin is purely decorative, and a matter of personal preference as to what style or how to wear it.
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 Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome
I have heard numerous times on the forum that the function of the kilt pin is to weight down the front apron. I suppose this may be true only if one is wearing an extremely light weight kilt (or has a rather large and heavy kilt pin!).
However, if one is wearing a traditional kilt made from even medium weight cloth, and wearing a typical kilt pin, which may only be a few ounces at best, the amount of weight added to the kilt apron is really insignificant.
Plus, that implies that there is a "need" to weight the kilt apron down, which there is not. Unless one is wearing a kilt made from an extremely light weight fabric, the weight of the cloth itself should keep the apron down just nicely in anything but the strongest of winds (when that 2 oz kilt pin wouldn't help at all anyway).
A kilt pin is purely decorative, and a matter of personal preference as to what style or how to wear it.
Matt has spoken! The matter rests Seriously though on my USAK Casual I wear a Sword Pin, on my Box Pleated Self Colored Duck I wear a LARGE safety pin same as some of the Regiments, it is a noticeable and effective weight.
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I never wear a kilt pin. In fact, I don't even own one. I've never had an issue with "needing more weight" to keep my aprons down. And here in Oklahoma 40 MPH winds are nearly a daily occurrence.
Just my 2 cents...
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27th June 11, 10:46 AM
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Is there a distinction between casual vs. formal for kilt pin wearing? I suspect if one rents a kilt part of the package is a kilt pin. Is that just the rental kilt industry making things look more normative than they really are/have been? Obviously kilt pins have been around for some time, but has it been more of an optional thing historically?
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