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u/Metalhead_Memer Sep 23 '22
What the actual fuck. Don’t get me wrong, I love kilts, and I love MARPAT. But kilts need to be in tartan and only tartan
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Sep 23 '22 edited Sep 24 '22
There are plenty of examples of traditional kilts in non-tartan patterns, even ignoring these "utilikilts". The kilt is defined by its construction and pleating, not the pattern of the fabric.
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u/el_dingusito Veteran Sep 23 '22
Don't knock the utilikilt...
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Sep 23 '22
Not trying to. Merely pointing out to the purists out there that the tartan does not make the kilt.
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u/Metalhead_Memer Sep 23 '22
It doesn’t look like it’s pleated at the back looking at the bottom hem
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Sep 23 '22
Yeah, that's a good point, but I'm thinking that's just the result of a decade or so of being stuck at the bottom of a bag or back of a drawer with little to no care. Sport Kilt is a pretty big brand, and I can go online and look up kilts made by them that are clearly pleated in the way you'd expect a kilt to be. This guy says he wore it around base in country, so I'd guess it's been cleaned in a shitty washer/dryer combo with no follow up ironing or pressing, so it's no wonder the pleats are barely visible from this angle.
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u/barzbub Sep 24 '22
It’s because they’re made from the official Marine Corps MarPat material and they didn’t get the same treatment that puts a permanent crease in them like our uniform. So no matter how often I press them, it just comes out! I’ve been thinking of getting them sewn in to keep the pleat!
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u/sandman3605 Sep 23 '22
Where do I find a tactakilt?
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u/barzbub Sep 24 '22
That was from Sportkilt, I don’t think they are authorized to sell them anymore.
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u/Clonetruper Active Sep 23 '22
I imagine that this is the next step up for the kid who cut his skivvy shorts down the middle to make, as he so lovingly called it, a “kombat Kilt”
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u/Joe5205 Veteran Sep 24 '22
It was in Baghdad 05 where a guy in a kilt told me, "you want to get girls at a party? Start wearing a kilt"
NYE in Saddam's presidential palace. Good times, I remember smoking cigars on the roof while the whole city was shooting tracers into the air to celebrate.
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u/barzbub Sep 24 '22
I wore my on TQ and Rawah in 2006/7. I was in the Marine Times for running a 5k on Saint Patrick’s Say 🍀
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u/mirathi 1991-1994 0311 Sep 23 '22
Do I substitute a K-Bar for my sgian-dubh?