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Like A Horse
Reality check here....I can't be the only one.
When I choose to wear a belt with one of my casual, wrap around and velcro close, kilts I remind myself of a horse.
When you saddle a horse you usually have to go back and tighten the cinch or girth of the saddle after the initial buckling.
With myself, I tighten the belt snug (I think) then put on the sporran and after I've buckled the sporran strap my belt is suddenly loose and needs tightening a couple notches.
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Ron
Ol' Macdonald himself, a proud son of Skye and Cape Breton Island
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"I'll have a kilt please, a nice hand sewn tartan, 16 ounce Strome. Oh, and a sporran on the side, with a strap please."
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 Originally Posted by Riverkilt
Reality check here....I can't be the only one.
When I choose to wear a belt with one of my casual, wrap around and velcro close, kilts I remind myself of a horse.
When you saddle a horse you usually have to go back and tighten the cinch or girth of the saddle after the initial buckling.
With myself, I tighten the belt snug (I think) then put on the sporran and after I've buckled the sporran strap my belt is suddenly loose and needs tightening a couple notches.
??
Ron
You are not alone..... I always seem to have to re-tighten.
I'm not quite sure what it is... Perhaps we stand a bit straighter in a kilt?
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I have to sometimes move it a notch on the kilt itself too!
not to worry, I bought a belt with lots of holes! hehe
~Casey
"It's the job thats never started that takes the longest to finish. Thats what my old Gaffer used to say." - Samwise Gamgie, J.R.R. Tolkein
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And here I thought it was only me! I find that I continually have to tighten the belt throughout the day.
"A veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it." anon
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Have someone knee you in belly before tightening the belt. Seems to work for horses.
.. the kilt had concealed a blaster strapped to one thigh and a knife to the other. He was aware of the present gentle customs against personal weapons, but he felt naked without them. Such customs were nonsense anyhow, foolishment from old women - there was no such thing as "dangerous weapons," only dangerous people.
--Robert Heinlein in Methuselah's Children
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Jeez, Ron! I saw that title and thought you were going to be banned for sure. 
Sir John the Educated of West Smeesborough
MacIntosh - by choice, and blood
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Originally Posted by mudd
Jeez, Ron! I saw that title and thought you were going to be banned for sure.
Yeah, that was my first thought too!
Work hard, Work proud.
Sean Campbell
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Originally Posted by Crusty
Yeah, that was my first thought too!
I had the fear as well.
I don't have that belt notch problem but I think that I'm undersized compared to most of you. I wonder if what is happening is that putting the sporran on has you "sucking in" to place it, and so you adjust. One of the other threads discussed the dignity and posture wearing a kilt, so you "suck it in" as you walk about. That discipline means you have to adjust your belt frequently.
BTW, Ron, all this is being meant respectfully.
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I have that same problem all the time but I am builr kinda like a apple on a stick so as my kilt settles or is pulled down a bit by my sporron the need to tighted up the belt happens..
Robert "the kilted" Lamb
Robert "the kilted" Lamb
"IF YOU CAN'T DO IT IN A KILT IT'S PROBABLY NOT WORTH DOING!"
KILT YOUR WAY TO EXCELLENCES
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9th July 07, 08:29 PM
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Hmm. I guess I make my belt pretty snug as I've never encountered this. I also have no clue about the comparison to a horse/saddle rigging.
And, when did your "title" change to "Kilted Gentleman of Arizona??" That is great. 
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.” -C.S. Lewis
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