Quote Originally Posted by troxel87 View Post
Papa Slob:

I totally hear you on this one. I'm 5'5", 130lbs soaking wet. I'm rail thin and can't keep a kilt above my knees for the life of me, let alone find one that fits snugly without scalloping the front apron at the top. If I cover myself correctly, sometimes you can't tell that nothing fits.

As for me, I've only been to one instance of the Highland Games, and I thought I had a pretty good notion of what it was supposed to be like. I was DEAD wrong. You had vampires. Fairies. Elves. PIRATES.

But, I can only laugh at them, because being at the games I got interested in getting a kilt. Pulled one off the rack, wrapped it over me, and had an elderly gent say "Looks good on ya, laddy! Howe'er, yeh'd like to know tha's fer a lassy!"

I promptly removed it, hung it back up, and that's the reason I just recently decided to try again.

We're all dumb sometimes!
You should consider wearing braces with your kilt (US=suspenders). I've seen them on members of the Canadian Armed Forces who are obviously too slender to wear the military kilt otherwise.

I hadn't had too many nightmare memories of Games "visitors" until this year at Glengarry, when an authentically bearded Santa Claus turned up in a filthy, or at least wrinkled, crushed velvet Santa outfit from the Victorian era (to be fair, the dirtyness may have been suggested by the wrinkling). But Santa clearly wasn't feeling well when I saw him: he was sort of speechless; swaying and staggering he was- or was that me?