What was your first kilt?

[dinerman]

first kilt- a royal stewart sport kilt No Me Gusta!
now I have my black watch heavyweight swk. Needless to say, I like it a lot more.

[Riverkilt]

not for long...

Be still my heart!!


Ron

[Brasilikilt]

My first kilt was a black standard Utilikilt clone made by my mother in law, in Brasil at my wife's request as a birthday present. The waist is too big for me, but I wear it anyways
After she made it she said NEVER AGAIN! as I think it was a pretty complicated bit of sewing :-)

[Wee Jimmy]

My first kilt was a Buchanan. My folks bought it for my birthday when I was 14 or 15.

[arrogcow]

First kilt was technically a great kilt in Aberdeen that was woven for me (wedding present). In 2000, I bought a tank (Thomas Gordon - Montgomery tartan) while on vacation in Scotland (I spent a lot of time looking). It was only worn for special occasions then. In 2001 I bought my first UK (Olive Neo) and became a regular kilt wearer (now I'b basically in a kilt 99.9% of the time.

Adam

[Kilted Stuart]

A hand made, hand sewn Black Stuart wool made by my Grandmother for highland dancing when I was 5 yrs old. It was made using a wool blanket. It did the job untill I stopped growing and dancing. It wasn't the best kilt I own but it stood up to the test of time. I still have it hanging in my closet, I'll keep it always and pass it down for a keepsake to my son. He has his own CCK.

Kilted Stuart

[Tattoo Bradley]

A hand made, hand sewn Black Stuart wool made by my Grandmother for highland dancing when I was 5 yrs old. It was made using a wool blanket. It did the job untill I stopped growing and dancing. It wasn't the best kilt I own but it stood up to the test of time. I still have it hanging in my closet, I'll keep it always and pass it down for a keepsake to my son. He has his own CCK.

Kilted Stuart

That's good stuff

[Nick]

First was my 6 yd greatkilt. My first kilt that I could wear on a daily basis was my Caramel UK Workmans.

[Seaforth Piper]

I transferred from the Royal Canadian Engineers to The Seaforth Highlanders in the fall of 1976. I'd been on a bridging exercise where several sappers had lost fingers or parts of fingers - pinched off by the Bailey bridge sections...

I thought "Jeez,I'm a piper - I NEED all my fingers" so the Infantry seemed a safer bet (hit a mine and yer ALL gone, none of this 'piece-at-a-time stuff') plus my dad and grandad had been Seaforths...

So I'm standing in the QM with a kilt (Kilt #2, Seaforth and HLI) wrapped around my hams... I must have looked doubtful because the Sergeant, he says: "Two words, lad - 'Dysentry' and 'Fornication'!

I was sold. 6 months later I was learning how to make them.

[Galloglaich]

My first kilt was 7 yards of Dress MacLeod bought for my mother's maternal grandfather, hand pleated and worn as a great kilt. It is semi moth-eaten now, but still sees action during Steeler games ("the terrible tartan"). Next I bought 7-8 yds of modern blackwatch & another that is mostly grey & unidentifiable that served as great kilts when non-clan specific kilts were needed (reenactments, etc...). I then picked up some lengths of MacDonald & MacLaren tartan that are too small to make proper great kilts, but I wanted to have examples from the paternal side of my family. I recently picked up a MacDonald of the Isles from e-bay that had the right sett, but was of a strange muted color that appealed to me for some perverse reason (when I pull up MacD. of the Isles hunting on my tartan generator and set the "mute" function up to 3 it matches the picture pretty well). I haven't recieved it yet, but when I do I'll try and post some pics and see if anyone has ever seen this particular shade. Finding matching accessories is going to be a nightmare.