Lidl kilts

**kiltmaker** · 4th December 08, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by Jimmy

This Saturday 6th December, LIDL start their sale of kilts at £24.99 each plus kilt accessories. This is the second time LIDL have done this, earlier this year for Burns Night. I bought a Black Watch, the last time and I have worn it several times, remarkably good quality and heavy.

Sorry Jimmy, These are not kilt!! These are imported kilted skirts! Anyone that has worn a proper 8 yard kilt will agree. These things are spoiling our Scottish heritage and if this continues proper kiltmaking will be a thing of the past.

**Nervous Jock** · 4th December 08, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by kiltmaker

Sorry Jimmy, These are not kilt!! These are imported kilted skirts! Anyone that has worn a proper 8 yard kilt will agree. These things are spoiling our Scottish heritage and if this continues proper kiltmaking will be a thing of the past.

you're a bit heavy on the spoiling our heritage, These are the kilts that were introduced by the victorians, right?

I'd go with the line that it allows a whole bunch of folk to participate in kilt wearing who might just not do it otherwise, even if its just to the football or rugby. Expanding your audience is surely better than having it as expensive and perhaps appearing elitist.

**auld argonian** · 4th December 08, 03:41 PM

I'm going to second what Nervous Jock has said. If anything, the proliferation of these cheap kilts has probably whetted the appetite of the buyers and led to them deciding that they want the genuine article. I think that a whole lot of the folks here began with a "starter kilt" and found that they just couldn't live without that full eight yards of worsted.

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**Larry124** · 4th December 08, 09:29 PM

Originally Posted by kiltmaker

Sorry Jimmy, These are not kilt!! These are imported kilted skirts! Anyone that has worn a proper 8 yard kilt will agree. These things are spoiling our Scottish heritage and if this continues proper kiltmaking will be a thing of the past.

This has gone back and forth many times on this forum. Each one of us gets to decide for himself what is "proper" don't you think?

**Mipi** · 5th December 08, 12:15 AM

Sadly there are even two Lidl shops in my town, but they don't sell any kilts. Don't thing they'll ever...

**Bob C** · 5th December 08, 06:44 AM

Originally Posted by Nervous Jock

you're a bit heavy on the spoiling our heritage, These are the kilts that were introduced by the victorians, right?

I'd go with the line that it allows a whole bunch of folk to participate in kilt wearing who might just not do it otherwise, even if its just to the football or rugby. Expanding your audience is surely better than having it as expensive and perhaps appearing elitist.

Hear, hear!

**arrg-isle** · 5th December 08, 07:17 AM

Originally Posted by johnnym

Because it would make sense. Most stores are too busy trying to make a buck off some hip-hop jackass that can't tell his backside from a teakettle.

Don't go havin' a cuppa at his house!

**bowser** · 5th December 08, 08:07 AM

Originally Posted by kiltmaker

Sorry Jimmy, These are not kilt!! These are imported kilted skirts! Anyone that has worn a proper 8 yard kilt will agree. These things are spoiling our Scottish heritage and if this continues proper kiltmaking will be a thing of the past.

got to disagree, I got a cheap utilikilt in a second hand shop (£15) wore it a bit and one or two mates got similar, I now have a "proper" kilt. I know severall people who have now got "proper" ones having started on a cheapie, I would not have started with a hand made "tank".

Most customers for a 25 kilt would not think of spending 300+ however once they have one, quite a few will decide that a "proper" one is worth spending money on.

Its got to be a good thing.

**Jimmy** · 5th December 08, 09:10 AM

LIDL advertise these kilts not for formal occasions but for informal times such as a football or rugby match or some other less formal event. In the past I have had an expensive kilt damaged at a rugby match, costing quite a bit to repair.
These cheap kilts allow people like me to wear the kilt more frequently without fear of damaging possibly your most expensive piece of clothing in your wardrobe.
Also it allows for less well of people to own a kilt for the first time in their life and being able to wear it when they want.

**Pleater** · 5th December 08, 12:38 PM

Just to be nit picking here - to make a kilted skirt - put on one longer length skirt, anything down to ankle length, with or without underskirts/petticoats.

Take a sash, belt, cord or the like and wrap it around the lower body upper thigh, depending on how much you intend to shorten the skirt. Hold the two ends in one hand keeping a little tension around the skirt and ease the portion between the waistband and gathering band outwards so the band can be drawn up to just under the waist band of the skirt and secured with a fold of fabric over it. the free lying fold is called blousing.

Lift the bloused fabric and pinch small folds evenly under the band all around the skirt to spread the fullness equally. Smooth the blousing neatly, possibly flattening that down with another band.

This would usually expose the underskirt/petticoat and where it was done frequently for travel, going shopping on muddy lanes or streets an underskirt with a pretty edging woud be put on both for warmth and for show outside the house.

Now you could call a cheap kilt a pleated skirt, but kilting a skirt is a bit different.

Anne the Pleater