For myself the "ideal kilt" is a traditional kilt of heavyweight 16oz wool, but having between 6 and 7 yards.
I found this out when a Pipe Band I used to play in issued me a kilt that was the most comfortable I'd ever worn.
It was 16oz wool, which IMHO you can't beat for feel and look and holding pleats, yet the kilt wasn't heavy.
I wondered, and when I measured the yardage I found that the kilt contained just under 7 yards. The pleats were around 3/4 inch wide.
So the next two kilts I ordered I asked for them to be made that way, 6.5 to 7 yards, and I love them.
Just last week I ordered a new kilt (for the first time in a decade) and it will be 6 yards of 16oz wool.
Last edited by OC Richard; 9th June 20 at 03:27 PM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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