Quote Originally Posted by Barb T.
You bold soul, you! I have to confess that I've never met anyone who actually does that with a traditional wool kilt. I have heard of people hanging a kilt on the line and hosing it down when it's dirty and sweaty, but Woolite and cold water is something I'm not sure I'd try any more than I would wash a nice wool suit. Don't you have trouble with the kilt keeping its shape during the washing?? What happens to the nice hard finish of the tartan when you wash it?

Maybe I'm just a chicken and all you guys will tell me that you wash wool kilts all the time. But, frankly, this isn't something that I'm going to try any time soon!!

Barb
Nor would I, Barb! As for dry cleaning a traditional woollen kilt: it should be done only when absolutely necessary, and even then think twice before having it done! Most of my traditional kilts have never been cleaned - they simply do not need it. My oldest kilt, tailored for me in 1973, has probably been cleaned no more than six or seven times, and it has seen extremely good service in those years. For over twenty of them it was my only kilt. Today, it looks like new. Of course, I have treated it with respect, as I do all of my kilts. Thorough airing overnight after wear, carefully arranged on a grip hanger and each one stored individually in moth-resistant plastic covers. I find they sedom require pressing either - at least not the 100% woollen ones!