Difference between a "dancing" kilt and any other, and liners?

[sydnie7]

I'll echo Anne, that dancer's kilts tend to be from lighter weight tartans. I recently queried an eBay seller who described their cloth as "great for kilts" only to find it was 8 oz.!

[Pleater]

I had a look at some videos on the net, of various acts of scottish dancing - I suspect from the way that the kilts swung so freely that they were of lightweight material, possibly in some cases lightly weighted at the edges - and that the same kilt in a heavier cloth might even have unbalanced the dancers - some of them were exceedingly dainty little things and scarcely seemed to put a foot to the floor out of necessity.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: