Kilt Pins

[BigMacMcDaniel]

How many and what kind do you have? Also I read somewhere that using the large safety pins as kilt pins is supposedly for female kilters only, any opinions on this?

[Father Bill]

For some interesting (weird?) examples, have a look here: http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...lt-pins-64703/

[Liam]

How many and what kind do you have? Also I read somewhere that using the large safety pins as kilt pins is supposedly for female kilters only, any opinions on this?

I have a different kilt pin for each kilt. Some fancy, but many traditional kilt pins. Not sure what you have been reading, but suggest you find a different source. Hahaha.

[BigMacMcDaniel]

@Liam, I must admit I don't recall where I found that information just that it came up. I actually have some lying around and I didn't want to make a fashion faux pas by using one.

[Liam]

Hardly a fashion faux pas....

[GrainReaper]

I have a couple big safety pins, one is kept rattling about in each of my sporrans in case I need to pin my kilt closed in some freak windstorm, or to help a brother in need if he should lose ahis at the games, etc. I usually make my own pins from trinkets that mean something to me, I have a few antler pins that I made from the first deer I ever bagged as a youth, I made a pin from a knapped stone arrowhead I found while wandering our property up in the northwoods. A few lego bagpiper mini figures, an agate from Lake Superior, and so on. Try making one! You might just surprise yourself!

[California Highlander]

I wear a big pin. I bought one at an antique store, then went back and bought its mate a couple of months later. They are pretty big and heavy, much heavier than the typical women's kilt pin.

[Jack Daw]

How many and what kind do you have? Also I read somewhere that using the large safety pins as kilt pins is supposedly for female kilters only, any opinions on this?

I'm sure there are those that think those horse-blanket pins are for horses only.

[Tobus]

I read somewhere that using the large safety pins as kilt pins is supposedly for female kilters only, any opinions on this?

Sometimes I'm amazed by the rumours that get started out there. This is one I hadn't heard before.

Large safety pins or blanket pins are a perfectly acceptable and traditional choice as a kilt pin for males. I'm sure Jock Scot wouldn't steer us wrong on this!



A blanket pin is the only type of kilt pin I wear (pinned only through the outer apron, of course). It's mere decoration, as it really doesn't add weight or pin anything together. I don't personally care for flashy, blingy, gaudy kilt pins, with the exception of some of the antique cairngorm pins. But I stick to a simple blanket pin.

[Jock Scot]

Exactly so Tobus. I do wonder where all these mis-leading stories come from? The kilt pin that I wear is Silver and is hall marked 1913 and spent more than a while in France(not sure that it was actually worn in the trenches, but could well have done)during WW1. Try telling a Highlander that this style of kilt pin is for the girls and see what happens!