Kilt Help

[Kaeden]

Hello!

I'm not quite sure on how to word this, so bear with me please.

I am involved in theatre at my High School and this year we are doing a Scottish play. I am the one in charge of the costumes, yet I'm not quite sure on what I'm doing. Anyways, I want the costumes to be as... 'authentic' as possible.

Could anyone help me with instructions on how to make a kilt?

(Sorry if I have offended anyone.)

[Panache]

Kaeden,

Welcome to X Marks the Scot.

Kilts are actually pretty complicated garments, now being that these are costumes for a stage production I imagine they don't require quite the same attention to detail as a true kilt. Speaking of which there are many types of kilts, so the first thing to know is when the play is set?

That will give our rabble some help in directing their advice.

By the by, are you doing THE Scottish Play?

Cheers

Jamie

[Ozman1944]

Welcome to the Rabble!
It would really be cheaper (and less taxing) to order "Thrifty" Kilts from www.stillwaterkilts.com About $28 each plus shipping. Call & make sure they have the amount you need in stock. Well made but very cheap and quick delivery (VERY!).
A Kilt , simply put, is a wrap-around garment, knee length, pleated at the back and the two overlapping ends in front are flat/unpleated forming an 'apron'.
But we have lots of experts here, so you'll get lots of help. Good luck.
Front (flat)

Back (Pleated)

[ccga3359]

A kilt is an engineered garment and isn't something easily thrown together. What era of Scotland are portraying as the kilt as you know it is not that old. Others may post links to help you. Good luck.

[Kaeden]

Kaeden,

Welcome to X Marks the Scot.

Kilts are actually pretty complicated garments, now being that these are costumes for a stage production I imagine they don't require quite the same attention to detail as a true kilt. Speaking of which there are many types of kilts, so the first thing to know is when the play is set?

That will give our rabble some help in directing their advice.

By the by, are you doing THE Scottish Play?

Cheers

Jamie

Thank you!

Anyways, the play is set for the 26th of January, but I have plenty of time on my hands to work on these costumes. And yes, we are doing THE Scottish Play.

[threebanger]

(Slightly off topic...)
As one who is theater-ignorant, which is THE Scottish play?

[Kaeden]

It would really be cheaper (and less taxing) to order "Thrifty" Kilts from www.stillwaterkilts.com About $28 each plus shipping. Call & make sure they have the amount you need in stock. Well made but very cheap and quick delivery (VERY!).

Thanks for the idea! Our Director is actually ordering about 10 kilts from there. He just asked me to make some kilts for the extras/fighters/smaller parts that will be onstage.

[Panache]

Macbeth:
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

[O'Neille]

The Scottish play is ................... due to some fears of a superstitious curse. A little search will reveal your answer.

[Livingston]

(Slightly off topic...)
As one who is theater-ignorant, which is THE Scottish play?

With my sister and her husband being in theater for the last ~30 yrs you'd think I would know that one ........ but I don't