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    Quote Originally Posted by Burly Brute View Post
    How then do you use it to sleep in?
    What am I a sheep herder? Just kidding. I sleep in bed or a sleeping bag...my days of sleeping in a kilt [if ever] are long gone.

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    Not sure why you couldn't still wrap yourself in a belted plaid to sleep if the pleats were sewn in around the waist area.
    I think of the belted plaid as more of an overcoat, though. I have covered myself with a winter coat to sleep before, or just slept in the coat.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bugbear View Post
    Not sure why you couldn't still wrap yourself in a belted plaid to sleep if the pleats were sewn in around the waist area.
    I think of the belted plaid as more of an overcoat, though. I have covered myself with a winter coat to sleep before, or just slept in the coat.
    Well, in my own experience -- yes, I've done it -- with the feileadh mor for sleeping you get the best result from something along the line of standing on a corner of the plaid and spiral-wrapping it up your body, forming something like a "mummy style" sleeping bag.
    "It's all the same to me, war or peace,
    I'm killed in the war or hung during peace."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dale Seago View Post
    Well, in my own experience -- yes, I've done it -- with the feileadh mor for sleeping you get the best result from something along the line of standing on a corner of the plaid and spiral-wrapping it up your body, forming something like a "mummy style" sleeping bag.
    ...at which point you must hope that no sneak attack is forthcoming during the night.

    Am I right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryan Ross View Post
    ...at which point you must hope that no sneak attack is forthcoming during the night.

    Am I right?
    What I did was leave it a wee bit loose to trap air and heat, wrap it up to my chest area and leave the final bit to drape over my arms & shoulders. Left the arms free to grab stuff, and if you just stood up everything would simply fall off unless you held it in place.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dale Seago View Post
    What I did was leave it a wee bit loose to trap air and heat, wrap it up to my chest area and leave the final bit to drape over my arms & shoulders. Left the arms free to grab stuff, and if you just stood up everything would simply fall off unless you held it in place.
    I never doubted that you had a plan, sensei; and I was almost positive that it involved grabbing stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dale Seago View Post
    What I did was leave it a wee bit loose to trap air and heat, wrap it up to my chest area and leave the final bit to drape over my arms & shoulders. Left the arms free to grab stuff, and if you just stood up everything would simply fall off unless you held it in place.
    Honestly, if I was attacked. Looking decent in my attacker's eye would be the least of my worries.
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    Guess it also presumes that one would necessarily sleep laying out flat on the ground rather than sitting leaned against a tree or bolder, or curled up in one way or another.
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    I wear two belts because i wear it... ahem... regimental. The single belt wrapped around the whole kit makes me a little wary. The second belt is thin and remains totally invisible in there.
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    Not sure I understand the OP but I always use two belts; one to hold the pleats and a second to hold my sporran, and dirk if worn, per the portrait of James Moray of Abercairney.


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