How to Sew a Kilt

[bigdad1]

I can't believe the level of meaness of the criticisms on this thread.

Those young gentlemen are using their noggins to create something that they may have no experience in. For a use, you know nothing about.

I can only hope that they don't discover this thread. You may have lost 4 future kilt wearers.

When someone presents themselves as knowing what they are doing and presumes to post an instructional video that is beyond wrong they have opened themselves up for as much criticism as comes along. Remember it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt. These fellows have removed all doubt. Perhaps someone will show them a real kilt that has been well made and they will be life long kilt wearers. Or perhaps they will turn their expertise to our budget deficit.

[RockyR]

When someone presents themselves as knowing what they are doing and presumes to post an instructional video that is beyond wrong they have opened themselves up for as much criticism as comes along. Remember it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt. These fellows have removed all doubt. Perhaps someone will show them a real kilt that has been well made and they will be life long kilt wearers. Or perhaps they will turn their expertise to our budget deficit.

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[tetley88mark]

i have to agree, the knowledge to make a kilt properly is freely available on the internet, someone with the technical skill to make and edit an instructional video should be capable of performing a simple google search, you google how to make a kilt and you get 1.3 million results, the first 5 of which look to my untrained eye capable of making a proper kilt, the end result in the pictures looks right to me and far superior to what appears in that video. they didn't research or experiment, they just dived in with both feet and opened themselves up to ridicule they could have avoided by some simple research

[artificer]

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So about this car you've made for me...



Edit: WooHoo! I just hit 500 posts!

[SteveB]

The interesting thing is that if you can make it through the whole video, the next Utube is Robert showing off Lady Chrystal double box pleat kilts. Perhaps these artists from Washington State should check out the vids that follow them.

At least he put it on with the "pleats" in the rear. He shoulod continue to wear the jeans with it though.

Slainte

[auld argonian]

Okay...let's not be so hard on the fella...everybody starts somewhere.

Let's just think good thoughts and hope for his enlightenment...and count our blessings that we, the kilted brotherhood (and sisterhood) have our $#!+ together...

Best

AA

[CDNSushi]

Okay...let's not be so hard on the fella...everybody starts somewhere.

Let's just think good thoughts and hope for his enlightenment...and count our blessings that we, the kilted brotherhood (and sisterhood) have our $#!+ together...

Best

AA

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The Good Lord saw it fit not to bestow everybody with the same level of skill, ability, and intelligence. Therefore, who am I to criticize His work by getting upset when someone doesn't live up to my standards? ith:

[RockyR]

At the risk of reiterating my "***" above, it's not a DIRECT critique of the work itself. Heck, if he joined up here, I am sure we'd all welcome him and tell him his costume is a good first step and encourage him to purchase another kilt from (insert anyone's personal prefference here) and wear it out anywhere he likes. If he can't afford one, I'm sure just as many would chime in with polite suggestions how to improve his kilt in the video (tapering hips, sewing down the fell, centering a stripe on the pleats, apron width, etc).

It's the fact he's putting himsef out there as a kiltmaker and has gone to the extent to edit (pretty decently) a video and create it and put it in the public domain. Maybe if he titled it "Costume Kilts made easy" we'd have less of a reaction to it.

[Whidbey78]

Maybe if he titled it "Costume Kilts made easy" we'd have less of a reaction to it.

Good point. I wonder if maybe he googled "kilt pictures" and saw all those shots from Braveheart and Rob Roy and just tried to reverse-engineer it from there. Of course, after reviewing it again(because I needed a good laugh) he never really says that it's a "proper" kilt, a costume, or what his purpose is. Maybe he just figured that those Halloween costumes don't come in "tartans" he likes. Who knows?

[BLHS209]

My turn, my turn:

This is from the "notes" section of the video - " Tidefront | October 13, 2009
This is a cheap design for mass quick kilts used in an annual Highland Games event. In no way is this supposed to be an official kilt. Thanks for the comments. And please for all you super serious kilt experts have fun with your own designs."

so there is SOME explanation to the kilt, for what it is worth....

Chris