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    A sad and sorry sight

    I chanced to visit an army surplus type shop on the High Street in Poole, Dorset, and there I saw three kilts hanging up and for sale - one even had the basting stitches partly in place, cut through but not removed.
    My first thought was to buy all three - but upon inspection I realised that the moths had been running riot in every part of them, and there was probably not enough good material left in all three of them for a cushion cover.

    I do know that without photographs ......


    but the thought of making strong men weep at the sight of the ruination of good military kilts....


    One was a knife pleated Gordon, there was a military box pleat in the Black Watch tartan, which I think was one of two - the third kilt was, if anything worse than the first two, and I did not lift it down for fear that it would disintegrate at the disturbance.

    I came home and went through my stash to check for signs of moths or carpet beetles at work.

    Anne the Pleater :ootd:

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    Sad indeed; I was once offered a "job lot" of kilts which were all stuffed in a bin liner in a vintage shop and on closer inspection it was the same story. I needed a stiff pot of tea and about fifteen smoked salmon sandwiches until I was even able to regain the power of speech that day!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pleater View Post
    military box pleat in the Black Watch tartan
    That would be an Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders kilt. (The regiment has long referred to their tartan as "Sutherland" BTW.)

    Oi Oi I hate that when moths ruin wonderful wool things!

    I actually have been looking on Ebay for an old Army kilt in the worst possible condition (rips, faded, mothholes all very much welcome) so that I can nick the three military-style buckles from it (black metal, two-prong).
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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    Very sad indeed.
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    That hurts me deeply just reading about it. Sad indeed as has already been expressed.
    Glen McGuire

    A Life Lived in Fear, Is a Life Half Lived.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post

    Oi Oi I hate that when moths ruin wonderful wool things!

    I certainly second that, such a terrible waste, even more so when you consider what it would cost to make such an item new today!

    I actually have been looking on Ebay for an old Army kilt in the worst possible condition (rips, faded, mothholes all very much welcome) so that I can nick the three military-style buckles from it (black metal, two-prong).
    Check carefully, my heirloom Mackenzie Seaforth has only two buckles (there is no left one on the inner apron) and they are, indeed, double prong, metal which may be brass or bronze and enamelled black. They do hold the belts wonderfully straight.
    Regards, Sav.

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    Weeping in my beer - I hate to think of the waste.

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