A Lasses Wear Thread

[skeeney]

I deleted th elovely picture of the bridesmaids dress with the tartan top...pic is way too big.

....And replaced it with this, which is a look I'm sure all our lasses will be emulating this summer, especially with those boots.

Oh yeah - soon's I lose 40 pounds!

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

Nice boots! And that model needs to GAIN 40 pounds! She looks very unhealthy.

Be well,

[Ancienne Alliance]

Nice boots! And that model needs to GAIN 40 pounds! She looks very unhealthy.

Be well,

[Clockwork John]

Nice boots! And that model needs to GAIN 40 pounds! She looks very unhealthy.

Be well,

That model make my wife look chunky... and my wife is 5'4" and 110 pounds!

[SuseDolAmroth]

I've a tartan corset matching on of my partners family tartans. The reviews have always been very favourable. But then it is a proper corset so always guaranteed a second look ;-)

http://chasingrainbows.deviantart.co...Isles-52485533

Ah, and after the various comments on corsets being horribly uncomfortable, well they are if you don't have them made to your body size/shape... My corset is fairly laced up in this picture but I can still ceilidh dance. A stricking argument for custom made!

[Alan H]

Here is something I don't see catching on:

OK, now THAT is hilarious......I can see that catching on door handles, displays in the supermarket, and so on..

[Alan H]

Bias-cut long skirt:



I loved this....



See it, and the notes that accompany it, here; http://www.jamd.com/search?assettype...xt=plaid+skirt

AND...if it's good enough for Eva Gardner....



Tough to make this work, I think but on the right person...



There's no reason you couldn't get a shirt made like this in really lightweight woo/poly, if you like the relaxed look.



Many, many tartans are available in silk or Dupioni. If you're handy with a machine and don't much like "corsets"' you could always make a tartan blouse.





Here she is, again...

[Scratchy's Lass]

We're always on the lookout for the 'perfect' kilt pin for my Better Half. So..... last night I'm finding this and that.... 'oh, *I* like that one, ah! *I* like that one......' which leads me to my dumb question:

What's the scoop on ladies wearing a kilt pin on a tartan skirt, specifically, one with pleats perhaps - or not, but either way...... is it "done"? Is there a "rule" under the control of the Official Kilt Police?

Of course it would be purely decorative as a tartan SKIRT likely wouldn't have any flaps needing held down in the wind, etc.

In any event, is it "done"? Are their any 'rules' (customs regarding appropriety) about this?
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[SuseDolAmroth]

In any event, is it "done"? Are their any 'rules' (customs regarding appropriety) about this?
m

Well, traditionally ladies wear really long kilted skirts. I do still see them regularly on elderly dears on the bus here (Aberdeenshire).
However I do not recall them wearing kilt pins or anything of the kilt. As for shorter skirts I think decency requires a kilt pin in windy conditions. The shorter kilted skirts available in may shops today for girls usually have a plain kilt pin for the above reason I think.

[Pleater]

I used to wear kilts as a girl, (50 years ago!!) and the kilt pins were just the plain sort - close cousen to a safety pin really. I never saw anyone wearing anything else on a wrap over skirt. If you were posh you had a silver version of the same thing. If you were unlucky your mother fastened on a nappy (daiper) pin.

They were worn at the same level as a kilt pin - that is above the knee, not down on the hem.

Very little girls would have a couple of poppers to close the edge, and some ladies had buttons along the edge of the apron covered over by the fringe or a doubled edge like old fashioned trouser buttons.

However, these days, convention and tradition are no longer the strict constraints they once were, and if the kilt is not the below the knee length that ladies wore, then there is no convention to follow anyway.