What Are You Wearing in Public Today While Smoking Your Pipe?
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@ Phil:
Yes, Kilts can be expensive. My formal tartan kilt cost me about $550.00. I also own a black utilikilt for casual wear that set me back about $200.
There is a company called SportKilt that makes casual kilts out of poly/cotton, one size fits all, for about $100.00 or so. These have been fairly popular around our local Celtic Community.
I just prefer Utilikilts for casual wear because 1) they look cool and different, 2) they are the most comfortable thing I own, and 3) they have all kinds of hidden utility pockets and snaps in the front that serve the important purpose of the sporran in not giving the lassies a show they didn't pay for. I acutally prefer to wear my black leather sporran with my Utilikilt for added style and storage space. A sporran makes an ideal space to carry tampers, matches, and pipe cleaners.
For more info if you are interested, you can check their website at www.utilikilts.com or look them up on google.
For a great US company that makes outstanding formal kilts in all registered tartans for formal occasions, check out www.AlexisMalcolmKilts.com. Or Google "alexis malcolm kilts". Alexis Malcolm is a seamstress out of Clewiston, Florida who is very knowledgeable, a joy to work with, and makes the highest quality formal Celtic wear I've seen.
I bought my formal tartan kilt for my wedding. My wife kidded me that between the kilt, all the accoutremants, and rental of a Prince Charlie Jacket, I spent more on my outfit that she did on her wedding dress. However, I've worn my kilt multiple times to numerous formal and informal occasions. Her wedding dress remains vacuum sealed in the closet. I think I made the better investment.
For info on Sportkilts, check out www.sportkilt.com, or google "sport kilt"
Yes, Kilts can be expensive. My formal tartan kilt cost me about $550.00. I also own a black utilikilt for casual wear that set me back about $200.
There is a company called SportKilt that makes casual kilts out of poly/cotton, one size fits all, for about $100.00 or so. These have been fairly popular around our local Celtic Community.
I just prefer Utilikilts for casual wear because 1) they look cool and different, 2) they are the most comfortable thing I own, and 3) they have all kinds of hidden utility pockets and snaps in the front that serve the important purpose of the sporran in not giving the lassies a show they didn't pay for. I acutally prefer to wear my black leather sporran with my Utilikilt for added style and storage space. A sporran makes an ideal space to carry tampers, matches, and pipe cleaners.
For more info if you are interested, you can check their website at www.utilikilts.com or look them up on google.
For a great US company that makes outstanding formal kilts in all registered tartans for formal occasions, check out www.AlexisMalcolmKilts.com. Or Google "alexis malcolm kilts". Alexis Malcolm is a seamstress out of Clewiston, Florida who is very knowledgeable, a joy to work with, and makes the highest quality formal Celtic wear I've seen.
I bought my formal tartan kilt for my wedding. My wife kidded me that between the kilt, all the accoutremants, and rental of a Prince Charlie Jacket, I spent more on my outfit that she did on her wedding dress. However, I've worn my kilt multiple times to numerous formal and informal occasions. Her wedding dress remains vacuum sealed in the closet. I think I made the better investment.
For info on Sportkilts, check out www.sportkilt.com, or google "sport kilt"
@ jcsoldit
I usually carry a pipe bag that contains 5 Cavicchis, my tobacco pouch, pipe cleaners, and 2 tampers. To answer your question, I have used my sporran as a back up carrier for my bent Danish freehand pipe, like a Bjarne or Karl Erik, and carry extra matches and pipe cleaners, and a pipe knife.
I usually carry a pipe bag that contains 5 Cavicchis, my tobacco pouch, pipe cleaners, and 2 tampers. To answer your question, I have used my sporran as a back up carrier for my bent Danish freehand pipe, like a Bjarne or Karl Erik, and carry extra matches and pipe cleaners, and a pipe knife.
I'm not sure what I was wearing seven years ago, but I doubt I was smoking in public. Maybe while taking a turn around my two-mile loop in the neighborhood, in which case, it was jeans and a shirt with a collar, jacket if seasonal, probably running shoes. I wouldn't dress up to smoke a pipe, usually, though I do advocate smoking a cob when wearing a full suit and tie or tux, just for contrast.
The tails fell off my tuxedo a very long time ago. I gave up suits 20 some years ago. 'Good' jeans are my dress up item, normal wear is old jeans. T-shirt and maybe a long sleeve cotton shirt if it is cool or cold, with a jacket over that if it is really cold. Hat of course. Shoes are necessary in the desert too.
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MSO, what made you dig up this thread? Wish the pics were still in it.
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MSO, what made you dig up this thread? Wish the pics were still in it.
Would this by definition by a Zombie Thread? Or, since it was started 7 years ago, a Locust Thread?
Going to the New Orleans Pipe Club meeting tonight at Winston's Pub & Patio. Will be wearing jeans, either a Polo or V-neck shirt and one of my Fedora's. Oh! and shoes.
Going to the New Orleans Pipe Club meeting tonight at Winston's Pub & Patio. Will be wearing jeans, either a Polo or V-neck shirt and one of my Fedora's. Oh! and shoes.
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