Re: Scout jamboree.
Interesting to note that, apart from kilt length and 3-tassle sporrans, these three men have nothing in common.
Different sporran height, quite different upper garments, various...

The kilt has arrived -- the package was in a torn and sorry state, but the contents undamaged. After an evening of country dancing and a night on a hanger, the somehwat crumpled pleats have regained...

I can quite understand that everyone has had a very difficult winter and that that was a good enough expanation for delays etc. The irony is that I was complaining about a kilt being made too...

That does sound like excuses!
Not often on Xmarks these days, but since I saw this after being quite unable to get any sense out of your employees as to whether they were going to make my kilt the...

What do you mean "stray into.."?
This is a highly religious-political thread from the outset.
The visit itself is already controversial, so how can comments not be controversial?

Martin

Honouring with a new tartan a visit that most Scots reject?
What a strange thing to do.
Martin

But look at the kiltpin; it's a lady's luggage tag!!!

Martin

One of the viewers' comments will shed light on this extraordinary feat:

"Kseniya Simonova is a 24 years old Ukranian artist. She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and "sand...

If you had been near Anger, you might have come across another kilt-wearer; a very keen SCDer from Japan.
He has a good collection of kilts himself, and to make sure he is not the only one, buys...

A great selection of pictures and comments, both historic and personal.

That was a favorite holiday area for my parents,though I never went there myself, and I'd never heard of the angel. What a...

Based in the pictures, we can now more closely define the kilt.
Is must be of pure wool, tartan cloth, pleated, to wrap round a man, and its length-waist ration should be 4:3 (or even 1:1).
No self...

I fully agree with KLO's remarks. I, too, often feel irritated by the screaming that goes on here : "I'm NOT GAY!" (Who cares?)

I love Scottish kilts and have never felt more feminine or more...

If you can make the stuff shown in your picture album, I should not worry too much about missing Howie. Your work looks pretty good to me.

Martin

No, I'm not looking for a box-pleat kilt.
It is just that I have never seen any such kilts advertized by Scottish kiltmakers/suppliers, and wondered if they were regarded as traditionally Scottish...

Do any of the Scottish kilt-makers provide box pleats?
Or 4-yard kilts?

Martin

So you people that have voted for the "twenty" version have been saying "20-something" for the last 9 years?
"twenty-one, twenty-two, ..." ?
I doubt it, so why change?
( I have never heard "aught"...

The ceilidh site kept me amused for awhile. I found a couple of pictures to paste into the appropriate places and saw myself and partner dancing. Quite fun, but once you've seen it, you've seen it...

If someone frequents this forum, he presumably wears an unbifurcated garment from time to time. whether it has stripes or tartan or is plain makes little difference. It is a skirt. A skirt does not...

I don't know what dance that was, but it was not the one chosen to celebrate the Homecoming year. It looked a bit like a dumbed-down Dashing White Sergeant, with no progression.
A good way to keep...

Snap !

We obviously thought -- and think -- along the same lines, Ham.

Martin

I did the same thing as Ham -- with the same tartan, as it happens -- after fighting with far too many yards of cloth, so heavy and bulky that it was more of a nuisance than an adornment. One thing I...

What could they have made their cloaks and blankets from, if there were no sheep?

Flimsy linen clothes cannot be compared with warm protective woolen goods, worn for different reasons. I cannot...

It is going to be quite an event.
I wish i could join you -- not onloy would I get to see a grand array of tartans, I might also discover what a "button down" is.

Enjoy yourselves !

Martin

One thing that I liked about living in France was the fact that you could wear what you wanted. At weddings, for example you see everything from t-shirts to jackets and even an occasional tie.
Most...

Like millions of Brits, I was brought up on Marmite and loved it.
But that was a long time ago, when it was called vegetable extract (with yeast probably; I can't remember) and was very tasty.
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