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Some people have indicated a high level of interest in how to wear a kilt,
so here goes an attempt... It's MUCH easier to show someone how to do this
than to try to write instructions.
 
You'll need a minimum of three items: a belt, preferably a handspan in
width (better to keep your kilt on ye!), a piece of cloth roughly 4-5
yards in length by 60 or so inches in width (I'd prefer wider, so I could
"cloak" myself with the top half. More on this later), and a brooch (the
semicircular "penannular" brooches work nicely, but the pin itself makes a
hole in your cloth. Try for a NARROW, SHARP pin, as it's less likely to
damage the cloth.
 
The belt is placed so that the bottom edge of the kilt is just above your
knees. The other 40+ inches are going to get rolled, tucked, or pinned
somewhere over your upper body.
 
 
Before pleating:
                      4-5 yards or so
------------------------------------------------------
|                                                    |
|                                                    |
|          belt (UNDER cloth)                        |
| <-->C===========                                   |    60 inches
| 12-18 inches   ^ distance from knees to hips       | 
|                |                                   |
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-----////////////-----   /// = PLEATS
|                    | 
|                    |  All of the parts ABOVE the belt get draped over the   
|                    |  shoulders, rolled and tucked into the belt, or pinned
|     C=========     |  over the left shoulder.
|                    |  The part BELOW the belt hangs just like a "short kilt"
|                    |  or "philibeg."
-----////////////-----
 
Lie down upon the cloth, fold first the straight "flap" from the right hip
to the left, then the flap from the left hip to the right. Buckle the belt
around your hips. If you stand up, you'll find you have two layers of
cloth over your legs: a short layer on the inside, and a long layer on the
outside going down around your ankles.
 
Take the two corners down near your ankles, and tuck them into your belt.
Grab a bit from the front, and a bit from behind your left hip, and bring
them on top of your left shoulder. Pin them there with your brooch. Don't
pin it to your shirt, as it'll tear it if you get "hung up." 
 
It'll take a bit of practice, and possibly assistance from another person,
to get this hanging right. I've been wearing the "great kilt" for just
over six years, and it still takes me about half an hour to get dressed.
 
The great kilt can be worn with or without a shirt, with or without shoes,
stockings, sporran, bonnet, dirk, or anything else.
 
I've often worn naught BUT a belted plaid while working around the
campsite, then added a nice "poofy" shirt for the evening. This is not
period usage, but it's handy if your shirt is overly warm or wet. It *is*
period practice to leave off the belted plaid, and wear just a shirt. Make
sure your hem is long enough to cover you!
 
If you unpin the brooch on your shoulder, you will find that the mass of
cloth above the belt drapes nicely around your shoulders. With a 60"
cloth, you should be able to pull it up over your head as a kind of cloak.
. . . I got caught in the rain at a RenFaire in the kilt, and got many
astonished looks from people in "short kilts" as I casually pulled my kilt
up over my head and shoulders and walked my merry way through the rain.
Try THAT in a short kilt!
 
Best of all, there's NO sewing involved!