Worst. Kilt. Ever.

[davedove]

I can't say I've ever had a bad kilt. Some are of course better than others, but there's nothing wrong with any of them.

Maybe it's because I'm such a fine specimen of manhood that they just all look great on me.

[Phicong]

My first kilt was an Amerikilt, olive green. Unless you are wearing it straight from the ironing board, making sure not to sit down at all, it looks like a wrinkled mess. Do not forget the raw stitched hem. My wife uses it as a reason not to buy kilts as she said that she would never get caught in a skirt with a such a rudly sewn hem line.
My home-made corduroy and the home made kilt I got from MOWGLI are my favorites for every day use. The both wash very well and come out of the dryer nearly wrinkle fre. I am making a couple of new corduroys soon.
Gordon

[ozone]

Interesting thread so far. I am noticing a pattern: not too many complaints about wool kilts. But, get another fabric in there and...look out!

Perhaps some of the kiltmakers on this forum would like to chime in? Are there ways of making a non-wool kilt that wont irritate the wearer because of narrow pleats, unreliable stitching, etc?

[Clockwork John]

Interesting thread so far. I am noticing a pattern: not too many complaints about wool kilts. But, get another fabric in there and...look out!

Perhaps some of the kiltmakers on this forum would like to chime in? Are there ways of making a non-wool kilt that wont irritate the wearer because of narrow pleats, unreliable stitching, etc?

Yes... Make it with the same care and attention to detail you'd give a wool kilt!

[cessna152towser]

Yes... Make it with the same care and attention to detail you'd give a wool kilt!

Quite.
Which is why USA semi-trads are so popular on this forum. Made in PVC but carefully hand made.

[O'Neille]

If the label says "Kilt" run in terror!



I detailed a bad couple of experiences in this thread a while ago. Lesson Learned.

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/w...ighlight=Worst

[Freedomlover]

If the label says "Kilt" run in terror!

Especially if the label says "COLL IRON" because coll irons are really hard to find.

[pipesndrumsnun]

Especially if the label says "COLL IRON" because coll irons are really hard to find.

"100% acrylic wool" is hilarious, though!

[Riverkilt]

Guess I've been pretty lucky, paid attention to the feedback on this board.

Before I got here I had two Utilikilts with problems. A tan original that the hem unravelled in the first washing. Took it to a local seamstress who fixed it. Shouldn't have had to. My blue denim UK original arrived with a bad snap on the apron where its supposed to penetrate seven levels of denim...a chore for any snap. They sent me replacement snaps and I had to buy a snap setter tool kit. Shouldn't have had to. That was back when UK was farming out their sewing and not inspecting the finished products well before shipping them to customers.

And before I got here I bought two SportKilts - the gathered, pleated to the random kind in one length (too long for my short legs). Only a kilt pin seems to get them to look anything like a kilt. They are better when my lady wears them as a long tartan skirt. And, they arrived reeking of cigarette smoke. And, with a belly like mine the only thing that funny little front waist pocket is good for is to cut off and make flashes out of it.

Ron

[Pleater]

The only kilt I ever bought was to be used as a pattern - but it was more in the way of a dreadful warning.

It was of course an eBay special, man made fabric black watch sort of tartan. It was made of several pieces of flawed material joined together, had signs of previously being pleated differently, had been pressed with an iron set too hot so it was polished in a couple of places, was made with a piece of rigid reinforcement, some sort of plastic foam I think, behind the pleats so there was no posibility of shaping - the waist and hip measurements are the same.

The buckles and straps were not worth the bother of removing them to reuse, nor the material of sufficient quality to be reclaimed.