How often do you wear a kilt pin?

[Chainsaw02]

What an interesting topic. I really hadn't thought much about it until I read the various opinions on the subject. I marked "Rarely" because I usually wear my kilt pins on my Maclaine of Lochbuie tanks and I don't wear them very often. I have several other kilts that I wear for casual outings and find the pin unecessary then. In addition I find that my standard MoL clan kilt pin has a tendency to become unfastened and have lost two or three of them. I also wear very little or no jewelry or a watch (bling). My personal preference only.

Larry Dirr

[mookien]

I selected "Quite Often", because the only time I don't wear a kilt pin is when I forget to put one on. I love 'em.

[MacGumerait]

I'm in the always camp . Like many others , once I put the kilt pin in place it rarely comes off unless changing pins or kilt being cleaned . After 42 years of being kilted , no snags or rips . However , I can certainly understand OC Richard's viewpoint , kilt pins can be a problem waiting to happen for pipers and drummers , especially in close quarters .

[OC Richard]

I have converted most of my 'pins' to magnets. The smaller lightweight ones have two magnets and the larger ones have three. Even if someone grabbed the pin and ran off, all that would happen would be the magnets would fall to the floor. No damage to the kilt.

What a brilliant solution to the problem.

Other issues with wearing kilt pins in Pipe Bands are

1) you can never get everybody in the band to wear them in the same place, so they detract from the band's uniformity

2) people lose them all the time. Almost at every competition somebody loses one. Same with cap badges. It's that Murphy's Law thing: anything can can come off, will come off.

Anyhow I'm a "less is more" kind of person. Here's pretty much how I dress all the time for piping gigs: hat, kilt, shirt, tie, jacket, sporran, socks, flashes, shoes. No waistcoat, belt, kilt pin, sgian, lapel pins, tie tack/tie bar, etc. In other words the minimum needed for a good show.

[Blake Roth]

I use the standard/military 'blanket' pin affixed to my tank and on one of my casuals. They went on once and have remained there.

[guardsman]

Its a handy place to slip a condom lol. Haveto belike many others once on it stays on

[California Highlander]

Never...I just don't see the point.

[California Highlander]

I use the standard/military 'blanket' pin affixed to my tank and on one of my casuals. They went on once and have remained there.

Same here. I have noticed a bit of a pull near the pin "hinge", from wearing the kilt a bit like jeans. Probably got caught on something while hiking. The kilt also has some small snags from blackberry gathering. It's a casual, 4yd, 16oz wool.


I got the pin from an antique store in the small town I grew up in. It's 4" long. A couple months later I was back and bought the other one they had. $5 each! Patina and sentimental value free!

[Pleater]

I used to up to about the age of maybe 9 years - but then I knelt on one and got the pin stuck into the side of my knee, under the kneecap - that was painful for a long time and I refused to wear a pin after that. There is no scar but the skin dimples there.

My mum sewed the side of the apron to the under apron to keep them together.

I think she was possibly the last Victorian in Britain.

By the way, the point goes at the bottom, so it hangs in the fabric even if undone.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[California Highlander]

By the way, the point goes at the bottom, so it hangs in the fabric even if undone.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

On my photo, I just snapped it from my perspective while wearing the kilt. The point is down! Thanks for the reminder though since it may be easy to get it upside down and loose your pin!