USA 5 yard wool kilts

[Fitzy]

Rocky made a 5 yarder for me in Dalgleish 16 oz. FitzPatrick Hunter this past winter, plus a skirt for my Girlfriend. It was a bit of a rush to get both done so we could get them in time to wear to a Burns weekend outing.

I goofed on my measurements (now, no more measuring during cocktail hour!). Rocky caught the mistake as soon as he saw the order, called me that morning and tackfully pointed out the error in my measuring skills.

Rocky got both done with time to spare and fit and finish were perfect.

As to the question of weight of my 5 yarder, it has a nice heavy feel to it when I pick it up, but I don't notice the weight at all while wearing it. Very comfortable. Just enough weight to feel the "swish factor" without feeling like I'm wearing alot of excess material.

I haven't had a chance to wear it in very warm weather yet, hope to soon, but I can say, back during the Burns Supper, when I went outside, it was below zero that night here in central NY and only my knees felt the cold !!!

Paul

[Fitzy]

Opps, double post deleted.

Paul

[Dale Seago]

As to the question of weight of my 5 yarder, it has a nice heavy feel to it when I pick it up, but I don't notice the weight at all while wearing it. Very comfortable. Just enough weight to feel the "swish factor" without feeling like I'm wearing alot of excess material.

That's my impression too. As I mentioned earlier I now have two 5-yarders from Rocky, one medium & one heavy, and I like them both though my overall preference is for the heavyweight fabric. The heavyweight, in Douglas Grey, arrived last Monday, and I wore it for the first time at dinner Saturday evening following a day of martial-art training at a weekend training camp in the Marin Headlands. Here I am wearing it, at the restaurant with my buyu ("martial friends"):

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