Another wraparound adaptation

[mugman]

Here's the last 'wraparound' denim kilt I adapted from a cheap eBay purchase, being a female item where I've switched the side fastening arrangement from left to right. The front underapron was fortunately flat and not pleated, and it has some pleats at the back which were flounced towards the hem, so I pressed them for an all the way down 'knife edge'. I borrowed the belt loops from another discarded skirt, and re-attached these and the side buckle with my newfound magic sewing ingredient 'Araldite'. It cost £3.99 all in. Ideal for summer gardening I think.




And (don't laugh) this is my intended outfit for future keyboard playing at care homes, etc.
I thought keep it all simply black and white so it goes with the style of a keyboard. Just need to get a less Scottish belt buckle. The t shirt does look like I've been run over by a moped, but I can work that gag into the spiel.



Pete

[RichardA]

love the kilt/skirt, but the socks..........

[Uncle Al]

Hey Pete,

Is that a Techniques KN7000 sitting on top?
It sure Doesn't look like a YamaHawmy

Like the Shirt, Love the Kilt and the socks/hose
don't matter as, to me, they help 'make the outfit'
a bit more professional looking than extreme casual.

Uncle Al
Duncanville, TX

Who is now back at the Cafe' after a computer CRASH

[crfriend]

I'm not a big fan of T-shirts, but the print on that one is a positive gas. Any musician worth a note will immediately "get it". Well done.

[Since1982]

I don't think you need to change the belt buckle. That leather belted item covering the buckle protects you from the buckle tongue. I wish I had a buckle like that. I think wearing that sporran sorta blows away getting away from the Scottish look. What unique tartan is that? Blue over blue with blue trim? doh...

[howardh]

Love the look!

[Peter v]

Good looks, but why take the trouble even if you are handy to change sides from left to right or vice versa? Who will notice and who thinks he is better than you to tell you off for that? It is a total non issue. At least if it has to do with conformity. Conformmity to what and for whom? Unless that is a personal issue of course.
The belt buckle is really nice. A great item.

At least you seem to be out there wearing skirted clothing often. Which is more than many so called skirt wearers seem to do.

[mugman]

Thanks all.
Uncle Al - it's a Yamaha PSR1000 I'm afraid - superceded these days by several newer versions, but soooo versatile I've been able to live with it since 2001, and it still surprises me with its zillions of voice capabilities. All I can say is well done to the nice people at Yamaha. Having said that, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a more recent offering from them. All donations much appreciated
The look I'm trying to achieve is one of plain semi-formality, with a touch of showbiz lightheartedness, and I feel it's almost there. The sporran is a problem and still harks back to a Scottish confusion. I might have a go at adapting one with a different front - maybe a sparkly musical graphic. Or, as my music is using modern technology, maybe I'll shape a circuit board and stick it on the front. That has a chromey maze on one side as a random hi-tech pattern (full of ideas!) and should catch the light as I sway sexily to the exotic rhythms .
The audiences will be mainly elderly people who have seen it all in their lifetime, from Liberace affluence through Elton John eccentricity, to the dark suited, bow tied, theatre organist Reginald Dixon. So a little theatrical treatment to the sporran, with maybe a keyboard belt buckle would, I think, be a good way of visually saying I'm not taking myself too seriously. Just so long as the overall look is neat, acceptable and memorable to ensure being invited back again.
I feel the long black socks are vital to the semi-formal look. The t shirt is an easy way of not having to decide what to wear up top every time. I'm going to be worried more about the accumulation of musical repertoire I need more than what clothes to wear.

Switching sides on the closures of women's wraparounds, and why bother...?
This is purely a personal preference. Maybe I'm a purist - though donning a short stonebashed denim kilt is hardly an indication of that! There is a satisfaction to be had in altering something to suit your preferences, especially if it works reasonably well as a result. I'm quite pleased with it for an item just under the four quid invested. 'Resourcefulness' is my middle name. Actually it's Robert...ooops, shouldn't have said that. The identity thieves will be closing in even more now But they'll have to wear a kilt to get away with it.

[mugman]

That's another job done then...



I dissected and old defunct tape recorder (with great difficulty), junior hacksawed my way around its circuitry, sprayed it silver and fixed it to a spare sporran. I'll probably add some of the holographic silver material (the stuff behind it) onto various components so they twinkle a bit more in any stage lighting that might be going. But that's a job for a spare couple of hours.
A robotic sporran.
Pete

[Kris]

I dissected and old defunct tape recorder (with great difficulty), junior hacksawed my way around its circuitry, sprayed it silver and fixed it to a spare sporran. I'll probably add some of the holographic silver material (the stuff behind it) onto various components so they twinkle a bit more in any stage lighting that might be going. But that's a job for a spare couple of hours.
A robotic sporran.
Pete

Fantastic! I love it!
You could probably produce those and sell them to a bunch of technologically inclined men and women. In fact even for those without a tech interest, it's an ingenious piece of art, and a great work of recycling (so another market is the greens).
Kris

[Since1982]

I wonder where the denim manufacturers send denim to be stone-bashed and to whom exactly? I could see 50 rolls of denim cut into exact sizes and pitched into a giant cage, along with 1,000,000 stones and 100 chimpanzees.....or..children,...... no, not children, they'd probably lose interest in bashing the denim and start bashing each other. Of course the Chimps might do that also, probably not tho, Chimps love each other, unlike children. One thing for sure, if they used children they'd have to give each child a golden trophy whether they bashed any denim or not. That's what they do today, right, both the winners and non-winners (can't call children "losers" in today's world) get a trophy. Ignore me, I ramble as I get older. Hey, I got older, give me a trophy.

[Departed Member]

Good looks, but why take the trouble even if you are handy to change sides from left to right or vice versa? Who will notice and who thinks he is better than you to tell you off for that? It is a total non issue.

Personally, I think it was a very sensible idea! These things get 'noticed', particularly in the UK. Unless you're wearing a hockey (or, netball) skirt (of the kilted skirt variety), which invariably are made 'right over left', and are often (maybe were often, nowadays?) worn as part of the 'uniform' in 'mixed' teams, then I think it is preferable to enhance such a garment by thus 'masculising' it. There are, of course, such skirts available which actually do dress 'left over right' and I have been known to chastise a lady friend or two, by 'accusing' them of 'cross-dressing'! And, in the spirit of things, the ladies concerned, did indeed admit that they were probably doing just that! "Vive la difference" (and to h*ll with accents!), as they say!