First weekend in a Great kilt!

[Caradoc]

You just figured out from first hand experience why it is that the sporran is traditionally worn from a separate, secondary belt.

One note, here.

For the love of wearing the kilt, do NOT wear your sporran on one of those ring-tied leather belts that are so popular with the RenFaire and SCA sets.

The extra length of leather will be a problem. Usually those belts hang almost to the knee, and the leather will either slap the front of your thigh or (if you move it farther off to the side) force the wool to rub against your leg and wear all of the hair off of your thigh.

If you wear a long-tailed shirt under the "great kilt," you'll still get a bit of rubbing on that leg.

So, don't do that. Wear a belt with a regular buckle, or something else that doesn't hang that far down your leg.

(And, yes, I speak from experience on this one - it only took the one time.)

[Robinhood]

I found out first hand about the two belt trick.
With a belted plaid, I place a small belt under
the pleats to get the plaid onto my waist. After
getting up off the ground, while everything is
hanging down, I put on my regular kilt belt over
both layers just below the small belt (which is
then hidden inside the layers.

This two belt assembly keeps everything from
moving in the course of the days activities.
The only down side to using two belts is that
with a 60 inch wide plaid, it won't go over my
head when I need to wrap in the upper half.
It does go over my shoulders easily though,
so I don't complain.

One of the nicer points of wearing a belted
plaid, is the amount you can "adjust" it.
When it is particularly cold, you can put the
belt a couple of inches higher so the lower
edge hits just below the knees. It is surprising
how much warmer your knees will be.

The only down side of a belted plaid is that
the bulk of it is unnecessary in the climate
controlled environments we occupy most
of the time, so that bulk becomes annoying.