My most comfortable kilts started out as top end duvet covers - it does entail making your own kilts, but I just pleat the fabric and sew on a narrow waistband just to bind the top.

Anything will do to hold it on, a couple of D rings and fabric reinforced with cotton tape, click together squeeze apart buckles, buttons, safety pins - or even Velcro.

The material is difficult to crease but seems happy enough to be folded into pleats. The kilt is heavy enough not to feel flimsy but comfortable in midsummer heat.

It can be thrown in the washing machine, lounged about in, carried in a backpack and even worn when wading in the sea, and it still looks kiltish.

The only thing to watch out for is a pattern with an obvious vertical line not printed on the grain of the fabric. Plain or something random is the best option.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: