Alternative Kilt Pins - What Can You Use? What should you AVOID?
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2023
- The kilt pin is of moderate practical use today. IN the very early days of wearing the tailored kilt it served as a closure. However, it very quickly became more of a style element. Whereas once upon a time you would pin the front and rear aprons of your kilt together using the kilt in, now one puts the pin ONLY through the top layer. This saves wear and tea4r on the kilt. The kilt pin is essentially just a mild wind weight. It serves to keep your front apron from flapping in the breeze (and to be clear we are talking about annoyance here, not exposure).
Not surprisingly, we have a lot of gents now who use all manner of items as kilt pins just for fun. There are no hard and fast rules about what you can use as a kilt pin. However, there are best practices and we feel there are some forms that work better for the purpose than others. Watch and learn!
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Man, anything that pins on and looks good. I have several brooches that I purchased specifically for the purpose of using them as kilt pins.
And for me, I have a very wide array of things but I love sword pens. And I love to have round shield pins paired with them.
I have this really awesome copper color frog pin (it is in the tall and skinny profile). Just need to get a few earth color based kilts to go with it
I use a Hand of the King pin that I think works well.
I've looked for swords from various fantasy/sci-fi/video game series, but like you guys mentioned they tend to be much to small and/or enameled.
I have a nice all-steel writing pen, because I'm a writer and, you know, the pen is mightier than the sword.
I've been on the hunt for a flamingo pin with the right size, weight, and shape to use with my Sterling Pink kilt, which I wear to games of my local pro soccer team, whose nickname is the Flamingos.
For my MacLaren kilt worn for Wood Badge events, I use two larger beaver pins arranged vertically. They give a good weight, easily identifiable and have a vertical look
I used to have a dirk brooch. About 4 to 5 inches long, made of silver and inlaid with agates, carnelian, etc. It made for a nice kilt pin.
on my Army Tartan SportKilt I've sewn my Unit Patches - in descending order: 82d Airborne, 3d COSCOM, 4th ID, 40th ID
on my tartan kilts I either use a old school big safety pin style or my clan crest. When I wear neo-trad kilts I express myself more. I have lightsaber pins, cat pins, I even have one thats a lapel pin that says "If you can read this, you're too close"
I found a 3 1/2" broach of a yellow rose that looked great as a kilt pin for my Texas Bluebonnet kilt. It didn't WORK well because it stuck out more than an inch. I wore it once and gave it to my wife to use with her bluebonnet sash.
BTW, I also like to have a kilt pin for each kilt and prefer something that ties in with the theme like a Welsh dragon kilt pin for my Welsh tartan kilt.
I go back and forth on pins...sometimes I wear a single larger kilt pin (either a sword pin, or the norse style Fenris you all sell), and sometimes I go with a bunch of smaller punk style pins. Just depends on where I'm going - concerts or bars, vs something less casual.
I'm a silversmith and handsewing a kilt. I am thinking about making my kilt pin(s) myself that represent my homestate of Indiana. There is a long history of French and Indigenous trade in my area, so I was going to look for inspiration from historical trade silver artifacts.
... 1 oz silver or copper rounds, with two butterfly pins epoxied to the back... lots of great designs...
I will admit that when I bought my very first kilt, without doing studying beforehand, I purchased a Brooch pin for a fly plaid and attached it as a kilt pin. My wife took a couple photos for posterity and to this day I will not look at them because of that big mistake.
I collect enamel pins, I have a few I've acquired specifically to use as a substitute for a traditional kilt pin. The pins I have range from Norse mythology and nature themes to flat out anime degeneracy for my kilts, depending on the company I expect to keep,
I just use kilt pin for formal kilt attire and prefer my masonic kilt pin
US Parachute Association gold wings (awarded for 1000 jumps.)
As a nearly life-long Zelda player, I like the Master Sword as a kilt pin. Now I want to try to find / design one for myself.
I NEEEEEED to get my hands on that Philadelphia police and fire pipes and drums kilt pin!!!
A fella I went to school with has always worn a kilt... he took up bowling some years ago & has a really cool enamel bowling pin, pin that he uses when bowling. It's from the 60s probably and easily 3in tall and has some heft to it. Very cool. I once saw someone in a picture wearing a piece of jade as a kilt pin. The caption said it was a wedding photo so I suppose the jade was safe in that instance.
I wonder if anyone has ever converted other accessories into kilt pins? I collect keychains and I can think of several in my collection that are weighty and the right shape. You'd just have to remove the shank & add a pin back. Something had competent jewelry smith could do. I have a solid copper totem pole, a brass liberty bell, and a mixed metal cast lady liberty. I also can't help but wonder if anyone has ever tried adding a pin back to a souvenir spoon. My granddad collected them... they can be weighty when sterling silver and they're long and thin. Makes me giggle to ponder it.
I have a cool little Majora's Mask that I put above my kilt pin, but never wear it when I'm doing formal.
I have a 3d printed Raven skull that I use as a kilt pin and everyone always comments on it being cool and different
I just purchased a carved obsidian raven skull I’ve converted to a pin. A little heavy but it looks good too.
I’ve used Designated Unit Identifier (military) and some Hard Rock pins for kilt pins. Some or sizable, some are not.
Harry Potter ‘Deathly Hallows’ pin for some geek-dom?!
The thing with patches...
want to get a nice kilt for festivals... last year at my favorite festivals, there where only a hand full of guys wearing kilts and all had cheap ones, this year a lot of guys where wearing kilts and most had nice ones... so should get another nice one and throw some patches on it...
I have a cast metal pendent of the Serenity from Firefly I intend to turn into a kilt pin. I tried doing it with magnetic fasteners, but they were not strong enough. Going to get a pin backing to glue to it to see how that works.
I use a scorpion 🦂 broach. I'm from Arizona.
I have two fish pins on one of my kilts.
i have used all kinds of jewelry, including instruments that i play, and sports that i play, some that i have made myself, and others thatmi have carved/sculped and or casted myself in metal as well as resin; Bari and Tenor saxes, Flutes, bagpipes, tin whistles. Hockey. Lacrosse and hurling sticks, upright bass, Hammond organ, US/Canada/Scotland, Nordic and Ulster pins, as well as curling pins Highland game pins as well as the flags of Ulster, The irish republic ++++. cheers from SpoCanada.
I have a brooch of the USA seal for my future American Dream tartan kilt!
I use a Warhammer 40k seal pin looks great
Id love to see a photo of that!
I wear a Louise Belcher from Bob's Burgers on my kilt I have on now.
I bought clan badge patch in Edinburgh that has 3 pins to attach it and the back ground is black i wear it just with my black utility kilt
Id like to figure out a kilt pin design to represent Submariners, for use with US Navy or Polaris Military Tartans. Most submarine insignia are wide and narrow, and using them sideways would look very odd.
I want a Lightsaber kilt pin! If anyone knows where one is available, please let me know.
Has my zodiac as a kilt pin. Haven’t used it yet because I don’t know where it is 😅 found it😂
I wear enamel pins from my favorite youtubers
I was wondering if my first name Craig has it's own tartan and my last name Cunningham has a different tartan could I waer either one or does it have to be last name only and which one do you guys like better
It's not really a first name thing, but Craig does have its own tartan. My great-grandmother was a Craig. Clan Craig is an armigerous clan as it has no currently-recognized chief, and its tartan was designed in 1957.
A LOTR Leaves Of Lorien leaf pin
The pin should accent the kilt, not detract from it.
Wering my familys kilt,yaa Bucs,, ps go 3!
When I wear my 911 Firefighter Kilt I use a fireman's badge.
+USAKiltsOfficial *Thanks for the stylist perspective.* For a United States civilian, I'd favor a scaled-down Great Seal (as used as the U.S. Army hat device) over a stirrup-hilt short rapier.
"tall and skinny"?? that doesn't really apply to your Fenrir pin.......