Quote Originally Posted by bear@bearkilts.com View Post
This may surprise a lot of you buy I think this is a wonderful area! It should cut down on the style disruptions in other threads and honestly, there SHOULD be a section for traditional kilts.
I'm not against traditional kilts. I love 'em! I'm just against ONLY traditionally worn kilts.
That said, let's get down to traditional kilts.
I'm making an 8 yard MacDonald tartan kilt for myself, (between the customer's kilts), so I'll have something to wear with my Argyll jacket. (Another surprise ... I only have a few kilts I wear and they're all higher waisted.)
It has 33 pleats about 5/8" wide and several inches deep. I just did the steeking and lining the other day and put it aside for a while to get back to other's kilts.
My kilt has 2 fringed edges on the outer apron and is poly viscose. In the eyes of a traditionalist, does this disqualify it from being a traditional kilt?
Sounds pretty traditional to me... I'm not a fan of man-made fabrics, but unless you were making the kilt out of Naugahyde, I'd probably give it the Auld Crabbit seal of approval. When I was a young man living in Edinburgh my kiltmaker, Mr. Lannon, used to double fringe the right hand edge of the top apron on of all the kilts he made. Sadly these became hand-me-downs as I out grew them, but I always liked the look of the double fringe.