An Interesting Feature on a Kilt

[Chas]

I can't see how this is a 'good' idea.

I always use a strap, but the buckle is at the front, just below my right hip. So there is no great bulge in the small of my back. (How anybody can drive for a couple of hours like that and say they are comfortable is beyond me - either I'm deformed or they are.) My way, I can push my sporran on to my left hip with one hand movement. So I can sit down, drive a car, dance as close as I want to, have instant access when toileting and as I do Scottish Country Dancing, I can adjust the height on-the-go and stop the sporran 'banging my drum' as it were. Win, win all the way.

If the person above is a tailor's dummy then it might work to display the sporran, but if it is a real person and they intend doing anything, like dancing or maybe walking, then I cannot see that it is a good idea.

Regards

Chas

[Chas]

The sporran loop things don't affect me too much either way, but are those mini rosettes under the buttons on the cuff and tail? If so, I have never seen them before and do think they are pretty niffty. If they are just a photo distortion of some sort, well...I still like them!

Looks like pixellation to me, but a piece of grossgrain ribbon behind a button might give a 'historic' look to a coat.

Regards

Chas

[tekdiver500ft]

I've seen this on several kilts, even on a friend's antique (handed down from his grandfather). Personally, I think it's brilliant. With my body (somewhere between obese and ginormous), I need all the help I can get to keep things where they belong.

[guardsman]

how are you going to do a slow dance. Good ,but bad in long run.

[creagdhubh]

Hmmm...can't say that I have ever seen this before, Sandy. This may work well for him, but I am not too terribly fond of how the loops 'disrupt' the natural position of the sporran chain. It looks a wee bit odd to me.

Thanks for sharing, very interesting indeed, Sandy.

Cheers,

[ShaunMaxwell]

My MacDougall uncle has his kilt setup like that. I'd not seen anyone else do.

SM

[masonpiper]

I have 2 leather loops on all of my belts, that I run a sporran chain through, the sporran hangs straight down from my belt and lays just were I want it. When wearing a strap, it looks odd so I wear the strap through the back two belt loops and let it hang naturaly.
I like it and my kilts like it.

[flatsphere]

I've never seen this but I don't normally pay much attention to other's kilts at the various games I attend in SoCal...unless there is something really different about it.
I don't like belt loops myself, and don't make kilts with them, unless it's requested.
If I had generous proportions, I'd not wear a sporran strap, instead I'd make sporran hangers that would suspend it from the waist belt.

Cheers!

[creagdhubh]

Perhaps his sporran chain is too long? If you removed the loops on his kilt, it would seem that the sporran would indeed fall much lower on his hips than its current position. I think all he may need to do is simply remove a couple of chain-links and there would be no need for the loops.

[unixken]

I know I keep harping on the mechanical stresses... but where a chain normally puts the downward force of gravity on the hips of the body, without relying on the threads of the kilt fabric to do so, the pictured solution instead places all that downward force on two small areas of the apron. Specifically, where the tops of the loops are stitched to the apron.

I don't know of any kilt apron reinforced for such stresses at those two points, and I've got to think that rather than laying flat and smooth against the torso, the apron sags or is pulled/distorted where those loops are stitched to the apron. Especially if the sporran is loaded down with keys, wallet, cell phone, etc.