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Re: Loincloth Sources

I make mine myself, as most loincloths are nothing more than oblog strips of clothing.

Re: Loincloth Sources

Those I actually wear are all cloth. So I just buy enough yards of cloth of a material I like from a fabric store, and cut strips the width I want. Most of mine are either cotton-lycra or jersey-knit t-shirt material, so with a good pair of scissors, I can slowly cut along the lengthwise "ribs" of the knit to make a straight edge. Or with woven materials instead, I can make a small starter cut with scissors, and tear a straight edge from there.

The kind I most often wear is a long (3-5 yards/meters) strip passing between my legs, wrapped around my waist a few times as a belt, and tied in back, with the ends forming the flaps. It's somewhat similar to how The Loincloth of Borneo (linked from Karsten's site) describes and diagrams not quite 1/4 of the way down the page. Except I make the back knot a little differently, to get a full back flap to match the front.

Otherwise, I'll sometimes wear a breechcloth (~1.5 to 3 yards/meters long) passing between my legs and hanging over a belt in front and back. This is probably a little simpler and uses less material -- especially if you have a comfortable belt to wear against your skin, or a strip of leather or other material to tie into a belt thong. It's also to wear under your pants if necessary, especially if you fold the flaps up and tuck their ends into the belt.

I do have a couple leather loincloths, made out of large-enough pieces of leather from a fabric store. (Functionally, these work like a breechcloth with a belt.) But I haven't worn them in years.

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Like Diogenes and Aaron, I make my own loincloths. Some are leather and others are faux leather.
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I made my own loincloth by practice and error; sew a lot, buy fabrics, see models, etc. And as I researched on the internet, I improved the design until it finally ended the way I wanted. If you like to chat, count on me nwn

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I never bought any of my loincloth as such. As I prefer the breechcloth type, all I need is are long rectangular pieces of cloth. I have cotton and linen cloths of dark colours (black, green, blue, brown). Maybe I should try the cotton-lycra mix Aaron has mentioned. These I wear with a broad leather belt, which I find quite comfortable.
My subligaculum (roman “gladiator” loinloth) I wrote about in this forum required a bit of sewing. This I don't wear that often, but the breechcloths had many outings this summer …

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Eh, I make my own. Six are leather, two are fur, two are in nice trade cloth for wearing with my First Nations regalia, and there's another six in plain flannel.

On warm days around home, I'm often in a plain red flannel loincloth and, if my hair isn't braided, a matching headband.

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This has come up when we've chatted elsewhere, and I can always send you some of the stuff that way. Stuff which originally got me wanting to write about the Middle Stone Age, including some loincloths.