Great Kilts... 1 belt or 2?

[rondo]

.. it would be nice to be able to adjust things on a second belt without doing that weird shuffle stance I'm doing now days trying to keep things where they were during adjustments.

Sewing down the pleats to an internal waistband and a few strips of velcro can be a godsend.

Rondo

[Dale Seago]

I've never done the two-belt thing when wearing a feileadh mor or "great kilt". It takes away a couple of inches (or "mor" depending on width of the outer belt) of the upper plaid that you could otherwise bring up onto your shoulders as a cloak. Just doesn't make sense to me if you want to maximize the garment's versatility.

However, I also have a 4-yard single-width plaid that I used to sometimes wear as a feileadh beag, mainly going out hiking in the coastal hills. With the lower edge hanging at my knee and a belt at the top, there would still be a floppy fringe of extra material lapping over from the top of the belt at the waist. So I took one of these wide leather belts (2 & 5/8 inches) I'd adapted as a kilt belt (cut and dyed it myself) and put that on over the fabric and inner belt. I found that now I could easily hang things like my dirk from it and, as an unexpected side benefit, having that overlapping fabric "sandwiched" between the two belts kept the kilt VERY securely in place.

It also just looked better that way.

[Burly Brute]

Sewing down the pleats to an internal waistband and a few strips of velcro can be a godsend.

Rondo

How then do you use it to sleep in?

[rondo]

How then do you use it to sleep in?

What am I a sheep herder? Just kidding. I sleep in bed or a sleeping bag...my days of sleeping in a kilt [if ever] are long gone.

Rondo