Kilt Do's and Don'ts

[phinz]

Here's the guy with the helmet off

We got pic of a wookie in a kilt, but can't find it.

Finally the guy with his pants down (and a kilt on if you look) had some of the best Star Wars tatoo work I have ever seen. While I would never go with a SW theme they were amazing.

Adam

I've actually discussed getting a kilted regiment together of Star Wars costumers. I believe my nephew (who has a killer set of Episode II Clone armor) has spoken to the guys at Amerikilt about doing a run with a Celtic Cog (the Imperial cog with a celtic knot in the center) embroidered on it. I'll see if I can find pics of him in his kilt and armor.

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Picture gone! I didn't get a chance to see it.

Sorry, rearranged the albums and did not update that post. Here it is again (I also fixed the original post):

[way2fractious]

and never make a kilt like this!!!

I don't know... that one was nicely pleated to some sort of stripe. But I still prefer mine pleated to some sort of sett.

[Pour1Malt]

Fractious... thot kilt is ekkin fooglie....

[way2fractious]

Fractious... thot kilt is ekkin fooglie....

Well, it was a bit of a challenge to get the stripes to pretend to line up across the pleats, but I think the printer must have had a few of your malted libations.. I mean, check out the apron. (See, it wasn't the kiltmaker!)

[Rex_Tremende]

and never make a kilt like this!!!

Sometimes I find the images posted in this thread horrifying, if not for the actual kilts depicted than in my feelings for the people in them, but sometimes they really pique my curiosity. I tend to read the image properties and follow them back to their original sources if I can.

On first glance, this one might look like a grotesque highland mess. But I've haunted enough art galleries to recognize this as something intended to be imbued with some sort of meaning, and I was correct.

This comes from the Victoria and Albert museum's Men in Skirts exhibit, and is the introductory image for the web site's section on kilts.

The catalog description of this particular piece is as follows:

'Millennium Kilt'
Silk, leather straps with aluminium buckles
Scottish, Jilli Blackwood
1999-2000

"I first thought of creating the piece on my return from travelling in Thailand in 1990. I bought a Mao hill tribe skirt 'off the back' of the original maker as I wanted to recreate the intensity of the Mao hill tribe embroidery.

"I finally began work on the kilt at the end of 1999 and completed it in 2000. It is embellished with hand and machine embroidery. By cutting, layering and stripping many different weights and lustres of silk, the explosion of colour was created. The colours for the kilt come from inside my head. The fabrics have all been hand-dyed by myself on the aga".

Jilli Blackwood, 2002

In seeing this kilt, I am compelled to ask myself many questions: Did Ms. Blackwood ever intend for this to be worn? Where does fashion end and art begin? Why is one artist's big mess of something is considered 'art' and mine is considered suitable for the trash heap? (I ask myself this every time I go into a modern art gallery.) What does this piece say about costume across the cultures? How do I relate to this garment?

Regards,
Rex, taking the fun out of it again.

[Pour1Malt]

...
Regards,
Rex, taking the fun out of it again.

as a piece o' art- ai luv it...

but then- ai am an artist an ai like maist art....

as a kilt it is a mess....

[Wompet]

I'll second Pour1Malt's remarks
(except for the artist bit - at most I'm a moderately talented hack)
It may have started life as a tribal skirt, but it reminds me of the woven throw rugs my parents have in their kitchen ...

[CameronTaylor]

It'd make fer en ooglie threw rug as well


CT - P1M style

[Streetcar]

Back in my Theater days we had an expression for projects that didn't turn out and we were too lazy to correct.

"F**k it. It's art."