sitting issues

**sathor** · 24th September 08, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by beowulf67

Well I hope you were kind enough to bring her a doggie bag when you came home from supper.

Ironically, she listed all the times she wouldn't mind me wearing a kilt, just not as a family, on our family day. She thinks we have enough problems as it is being Pagan, let alone the additional issues the kids would end up with having me in a kilt. Of course, She doesn't realize that the oldest may end up kilted by next spring, because I didn't tell her that yet...

**sathor** · 24th September 08, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

Well, ya know the old joke that can be adapted to fit the situation:

"My wife said that she'd leave me if I bought another kilt."

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Yeah, I am thinking of getting a Black Watch kilt next time we go to the Ren fest, (not as cheap as Stillwater, but since I can try it on there...) that way I have one that looks more 'traditional' kilt like, which may help her out a bit.

**auld argonian** · 24th September 08, 10:06 PM

Originally Posted by sathor

Yeah, I am thinking of getting a Black Watch kilt next time we go to the Ren fest, (not as cheap as Stillwater, but since I can try it on there...) that way I have one that looks more 'traditional' kilt like, which may help her out a bit.

While my wife seems indifferent about the kilts, I have a couple that are friends of ours and the wife just can't stand it when I show up in a kilt...the husband is skeptical and has stated that he thinks that if a kilt is tartan and red, it looks more like a "real" kilt and less like a skirt. For some folks it has to be tartan or they just can't wrap their minds around it. While I don't have a contemporary kilt and prefer tartan, I still figger that the Utilikilt-type things look fine on most guys and actually should appeal to a whole lot more younger fellas than the tartan. Yo' mileage may vary, as they say...

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**Mipi** · 25th September 08, 03:23 AM

Going back to original problem....

How the kilt hangs in front and back, depends on how pleats/apron split is done (IMHO). Reading literature and working on my own diy kilt, I believe simple 50/50 split is not always good. If you have more "flesh" on back, more hip measurments should go into pleats and if you have more in belly you should accommodate there. This way bottom adge of kilt will hang properly and assuming seting would be no (or less) issue.

But, this is only my thinking. I'm not kilt master (yet)

**Highlander31** · 25th September 08, 04:04 AM

Originally Posted by sathor

I kinda finally figured it out, mostly, and then my wife refuses to go out of the house with me in a kilt. I'm standing there hungry and she's in her pajamas refusing to get dressed until I change...

It's the other way around with my wife. She gets mad if for some reason, I decide not to wear a kilt (she even has her friends complain about it.)

Back to the topic. I only wear a tank so I cannot comment on the other kilt products. I found after a bit of practice sitting down and sweeping the pleats, it became second nature. If for some reason I didn't get it right the first time, I just stand up slightly (just enough to clear the chair) and reposition the pleats.

**sathor** · 25th September 08, 04:34 AM

Originally Posted by Highlander31

It's the other way around with my wife. She gets mad if for some reason, I decide not to wear a kilt (she even has her friends complain about it.)

Was she like that when you met, IE were you wearing Kilts back then as well?

**Ozman1944** · 25th September 08, 06:31 AM

I'm confused! This is like reading two threads at once!!!
Isn't the thread about sitting????

**Mr. bone** · 25th September 08, 12:10 PM

I had trouble as well. Maybe because my only kilt is a UK workmans. I discovered by accident that if I use the back of my hands it seems a touch easier. Hope to have a "real" kilt someday so I can see if there is any difference in sweeping.

**sathor** · 25th September 08, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by Ozman1944

I'm confused! This is like reading two threads at once!!!
Isn't the thread about sitting????

yeah, I started it on that, then once i got past it, came unto a new issue, so some stuff is to the original problem, and some is to the aftermath of solving the problem. I spent 2 hours last Fri learning how to sit in the dang thing.

Part of my issue now is I hate the sporan chain. So I ordered a belt and hanger from stillwater last night.

**Rob MacDonald** · 3rd October 08, 08:21 PM

I've become inured to cold legs and whatsit while sitting on a metal chair.

the greater concern is 'sightlines' - there is a photo we've all seen of the Officers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in a group photo with HM the Queen - with one gentleman's courting-tackle in full view.

The Officer in question has now been immortalized by the hornpipe entitled "Hamilton's Nutsack"......