Stillwater Blackwatch arrived

**646guy** · 2nd February 06, 09:47 AM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Cool, can't have enough kilts!

So, here's a question....

Is a SWK a traditional kilt, or a contemporary kilt??

Ron

According to the ebay site, it's a Standard kilt....It's rather light but VERY soft....

**GlassMan** · 2nd February 06, 09:48 AM

I would say that a Stillwater uses traditional styling on a non-traditional material.

**NewKilt** · 2nd February 06, 10:03 AM

I agree that the Stillwater standards are traditional style and non-traditional material. The material is acrylic, but looks and feels similar to wool. Also, per and e-mail from Jerry, he said the standards are approximately 10 oz. So, they are very much like a light weight 10 oz wool kilt traditional kilt. But, be careful of snags. You can easily snag the acrylic material. I have 5 Stillwaters (1 heavyweight and 4 standards), and love them all.

Darrell

**646guy** · 2nd February 06, 10:13 AM

Originally Posted by NewKilt

I agree that the Stillwater standards are traditional style and non-traditional material. The material is acrylic, but looks and feels similar to wool. Also, per and e-mail from Jerry, he said the standards are approximately 10 oz. So, they are very much like a light weight 10 oz wool kilt traditional kilt. But, be careful of snags. You can easily snag the acrylic material. I have 5 Stillwaters (1 heavyweight and 4 standards), and love them all.

Darrell

Yeah I already snagged a couple of times last night as i was trying to get out the thread holding the pleats down for shipping but nothing very noticeable. It's definitely acrylic material and ver light....but very comfortable. I don't have any traditional kilt pins so pulled out a AIDS ribbon pin I was given many years ago that was crafted by doctors in southern Africa who are working to fight the AIDS virus there (education, treatment, etc) and put that where the kilt pin would normally go...