Kilt Pins

[BigMacMcDaniel]

How many and what kind do you have? Also I read somewhere that using the large safety pins as kilt pins is supposedly for female kilters only, any opinions on this?

[Father Bill]

For some interesting (weird?) examples, have a look here: http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...lt-pins-64703/

[Liam]

How many and what kind do you have? Also I read somewhere that using the large safety pins as kilt pins is supposedly for female kilters only, any opinions on this?

I have a different kilt pin for each kilt. Some fancy, but many traditional kilt pins. Not sure what you have been reading, but suggest you find a different source. Hahaha.

[BigMacMcDaniel]

@Liam, I must admit I don't recall where I found that information just that it came up. I actually have some lying around and I didn't want to make a fashion faux pas by using one.

[Liam]

Hardly a fashion faux pas....

[GrainReaper]

I have a couple big safety pins, one is kept rattling about in each of my sporrans in case I need to pin my kilt closed in some freak windstorm, or to help a brother in need if he should lose ahis at the games, etc. I usually make my own pins from trinkets that mean something to me, I have a few antler pins that I made from the first deer I ever bagged as a youth, I made a pin from a knapped stone arrowhead I found while wandering our property up in the northwoods. A few lego bagpiper mini figures, an agate from Lake Superior, and so on. Try making one! You might just surprise yourself!

[California Highlander]

I wear a big pin. I bought one at an antique store, then went back and bought its mate a couple of months later. They are pretty big and heavy, much heavier than the typical women's kilt pin.

[Liam]

Just a comment to GrainReaper... The purpose of a kilt pin is to add weight to the apron, never to hold the kilt together. Historically kilt pins were used, I understand to hold the kilt together at the waist in place of buckles.

[figheadair]

Don't wear one and never have. I find them an unnecessary bit of boy bling and more importantly, the majority are a hazzard to the health of the front apron. If I did wear one it would be what I know as an Atholl Pin, a plain pin with a ball on each end, one of which is threaded to screw onto the end of the pin.

[GrainReaper]

I have needed those big safety pins I keep on hand exactly twice, and one time needed to loan one out.

Once my strap buckle broke and I had no belt, but my sporran was in the car so I had access to a pin to secure my kilt.

Second time it was windy on a pub crawl in Arizona, and a friend had no pin to weight the outer apron down on his kilt.

Lastly we were in downtown Chicago and the wind was insane. Pinning the outer apron wasn't cutting it as it was still blowing open both aprons, a quick double apron pinning and all was right in the world, when the wind settled down I was able to pin normally on just the outer apron.