Tartan weight

[Maclachlan]

Thanks Jeff. I am looking at the muted versions as an option for the same reasons you mentioned in that the ten ounce just doesn't seem to be enough material weight to allow for that swing versus, well, whatever it is a lightweight wool does when one moves about!

This may well sound chauvinistic and I certainly don't mean for it to, but I had always heard that the ten ounce fabrics were pretty much used for the ladies side of things (hostess dresses and such) but have never read that in the kilt manual!

[Barb T]

I made an Air Force tartan kilt in 10 oz Strathmore for my daughter when she started Air Force ROTC quite a few years ago. It does not make a very good kilt - wrinkles like the dickens and feels like a skirt. I've since had a custom weave in 16 oz done, and that's the kilt she has now. The old 10 oz kilt went to a Highland dancer, and, even for her, it's a little "flippy". I'd pick a different tartan, or have something custom woven, long before I'd make another kilt in 10 oz.