Kilt Pin, Anchor Weight Or True Pin?

[EldarKinSlayer]

If this has been asked before, I apologize, I searched, really.

When wearing your kilt do you wear the kilt pin as a weight on the outer apron or do you pin the outer apron to the inner apron?

I have been wearing it as a weight on one or two occasions thought actually pinning the aprons together might be useful.

Thanks, and again I apologize for my weak search-fu.

[paulhenry]

you can wear all sorts of pins, broaches, weights, but the one thing you shouldn't do, is to pin the layers together, it could lead to tearing of the aprons , and it restricts movement as well

[SlackerDrummer]

Pinning it to the inner apron will ruin the swing of the kilt. A kilt pin is for looks, not intended to be functional.

[Jock Scot]

you can wear all sorts of pins, broaches, weights, but the one thing you shouldn't do, is to pin the layers together, it could lead to tearing of the aprons , and it restricts movement as well

Paul has said it. Of course you don't HAVE to wear a "pin" at all if you wish.

[EldarKinSlayer]

Thank You, Gentlemen I appreciate your responses.

[bigdad1]

Pinning it to the inner apron will ruin the swing of the kilt. A kilt pin is for looks, not intended to be functional.

It is meant to be functional but that function is to weigh the front flap down.

[azwildcat96]

Yep, what they said.

1) Don't pin through both, or you may tear the tartan, and the swing will be altered, and
2) It is decorative, but it is also functional in that it weights down the top front apron.

[Jack Daw]

If you're trying to get rid of a bad piper that you intentionally or accidentally killed, however, you will need something heavier than a kilt pin, say a cannonball or feet in a cement block, in order to weigh the body down in the ocean.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

I have heard numerous times on the forum that the function of the kilt pin is to weight down the front apron. I suppose this may be true only if one is wearing an extremely light weight kilt (or has a rather large and heavy kilt pin!).

However, if one is wearing a traditional kilt made from even medium weight cloth, and wearing a typical kilt pin, which may only be a few ounces at best, the amount of weight added to the kilt apron is really insignificant.

Plus, that implies that there is a "need" to weight the kilt apron down, which there is not. Unless one is wearing a kilt made from an extremely light weight fabric, the weight of the cloth itself should keep the apron down just nicely in anything but the strongest of winds (when that 2 oz kilt pin wouldn't help at all anyway).

A kilt pin is purely decorative, and a matter of personal preference as to what style or how to wear it.

[EldarKinSlayer]

I have heard numerous times on the forum that the function of the kilt pin is to weight down the front apron. I suppose this may be true only if one is wearing an extremely light weight kilt (or has a rather large and heavy kilt pin!).

However, if one is wearing a traditional kilt made from even medium weight cloth, and wearing a typical kilt pin, which may only be a few ounces at best, the amount of weight added to the kilt apron is really insignificant.

Plus, that implies that there is a "need" to weight the kilt apron down, which there is not. Unless one is wearing a kilt made from an extremely light weight fabric, the weight of the cloth itself should keep the apron down just nicely in anything but the strongest of winds (when that 2 oz kilt pin wouldn't help at all anyway).

A kilt pin is purely decorative, and a matter of personal preference as to what style or how to wear it.

Matt has spoken! The matter rests Seriously though on my USAK Casual I wear a Sword Pin, on my Box Pleated Self Colored Duck I wear a LARGE safety pin same as some of the Regiments, it is a noticeable and effective weight.