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Craigie Originals Belt Page prologue............. |
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| Kilt Belts: The wee kilt is designed to be worn with a kilt belt. You don't have
to, but it looks better. Your street pants look better when you put a belt on, and so does your kilt. The large
wide upper hem is there for you to decorate with your belt and kilt buckle,
not to mention holding the kilt in place. It is worn high, like yours is, probably touching your belly button,
a phenomena which explains why the belt sizes vary, also. The kilt buckle will also give you a chance to flash
more silver color and design in the space there above your sporran. Folding
your own great kilt, a labor of love, is infinitely more simple using a kilt belt to hold it together.
Sporran Belts: For hundreds of years the sporran has hung from an uncomfortable chain. It may have been around for centuries, but it has 3 profound side effects peculiar to it. If it is a cheap chain, and most of them are, the multitude of tiny metal cutoff ends of the chains links pick at the kilt's minute wool fibers as you walk, especially if you are a piper and do a lot of marching. I have actually seen a kilt which was thrown away because of it. You could see right through the fabric wherever the chain was rubbing against it. Second. the chain is hard, unforgiving, bouncy, and uncomfortable. Third, if a man is even slightly overweight, or heaven forbid, a modest paunch, the sporran will creep under that stomach, a phenomena called pooching. There are Scots walking around today who haven't seen their sporran in many years. That alone was the call for Craigie to invent the sling, and in the 5 years since it's introduction, it has been sold all over the world, to the overweight, and to the flatbellies. Diabolically clever thing it is. A belt less than 2 feet long with a 6 inch loop at each end. Each loop snaps to itself, one on each side of the kilt buckle. The center area of the sling is braided leather and the whole belt is slipped through the loop on back of the sporran. Voila! The pooching disappears forever. There is no longer anything to wear away the kilt's wool fibers, and the metal chain around your body that drums as it pulls the sporran again and again and against you with each step also surprisingly disappears. That solves a problem for the people wearing Craigie sporrans with the oversized belt loops on the back, but a 1" sling won't slip through the 1/2" to 3/4" belt loops on the sporrans which have been hanging around for centuries. Yes, you know the ones. Stamped from leatherboard sheets by cookie cutter dies, hurriedly bolted, stapled, riveted, screwed, and mass sewn together in a never ending Willie Wonka Henry Ford setting, sold and accepted by the eager public only because they have been done that way for hundreds of years. To help even those victims who fell prey to this kind of a purchase, Craigie built a sling with two 7" loops each snapping around your kilt belt on each side of the kilt buckle, but in the center, a jewelers curb chain, decorative of course, but it will never rub on your kilt's fine woolen fibers, and it won't ever pooch, and it doesn't pound you to death with each step. Best of all, you can keep your Famous Angus cookie cutter sporran. You don't even have to spend good money to buy the best new hand made, highest quality leatherwork from Craigie's workshop. Craigie also makes a leather sporran belt in three styles. All but one style are lined with hook and loop (the soft side) on the side that touches you. The liner nestles into your woolen tartan's fabric and stops the sliding and bouncing.A subtle difference, you say, but one which subliminally tells you, Aaaah! This is more comfortable! 3/4" wide 1" or 1 1/4" wide. $35.00-$60.00-$70.00. We also happily sell jewelers curb chain (quality built) $35 belts to those persons who prefer the chain. |
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