Kommando Kilts

[Riverkilt]

http://www.kommandokilts.com/kilts.html

So, I'm in Flagstaff yesterday. Coming out of Burley Fish with my new tattoo a car pulled up next to me in the parking lot and a lady got out and looked at my leather kilt and asked if it was a Utilikilt. Told her it was. She said her husband has six kilts. Then her husband stuck his head out of the car window and asked if I'd ever heard of Kommando Kilts.

Told him no, I hadn't. He said they were like Utilikilts only less expensive. Today googled up the above company out of Oklahoma. Using the word Kommando on the search engine for this board didn't turn up any posts.

Its hard to tell for sure, but it looks like they don't put many pleats in the kilt and that the pleats reverse in the middle like with a Utilikilt, only the center pleat deal goes outside, rather than inside....if that makes any sense.

Website says they're new...more folks getting on the kilt bandwagon.

Price seems to be $125...but from what the website pics looklike if I had $125 for a kilt I think I might save up a bit longer for a better effort....like a Freedom Kilt.

Anyone on the board own a Kommando Kilt or did the search engine miss any threads?

Ron

[Kilted KT]

If they have a store, I'll head out there and check it out. I've never heard of them before, but with them being an hour away, I think I can make the trip.

I'll try to head up there next weekend, depending on my schedule.

[Riverkilt]

Here's the addy and info they put on the website. No clue if its commercial area or residential.

Address:
7132 Melrose Lane
Oklahoma City, OK 73127 USLocal: 405-787-2123
Toll Free: 1-866-552-6687
Fax: 405-787-6226

Thanks for the detective work.

Ron

[Kilted KT]

I'll check into this and see what we are working with. I'll post more info as I get it. If I can, I'll get one of the kiltmakers to join Xmarks so he/she can answer questions directly.

[turpin]

Sorry to be negative, but I have to say that the photos on their website make the kilts look like crap. The design looks like a cross between a hip-worn casual and a three-buckle trad, which puts the lower right buckle way down there on the leg and the top one where the lower right one should be. The seams look puckered and the pleats are all over the place. The owner needs to buy an iron. I usually don't post like this, but jeez!

[Tattoo Bradley]

Sorry to be negative, but I have to say that the photos on their website make the kilts look like crap. The design looks like a cross between a hip-worn casual and a three-buckle trad, which puts the lower right buckle way down there on the leg and the top one where the lower right one should be. The seams look puckered and the pleats are all over the place. The owner needs to buy an iron. I usually don't post like this, but jeez!

Oh man. I usually don't voice so negatively either. BUT, the pictures certainly leave something to be desired. It seems to me that a vendor would make a better effort to ensure the models were "ready" before taking pictures, much less posting them on their site. Some of the kilts aren't on straight, belts are all crooked. What a mess. If I had to go simply by the website, I wouldn't be doing any buisness with them.

Oh, and $125 is the SAME price as the "comparable" Utilikilt (original.) Not sure where he got "less expensive" unless he's comparing apples and oranges.

[toadinakilt]

The site says that they took great care in designing it...
No word on what type of care was used to construct it...
Meh, I'll save my bucks for a UK. Booyah.

[haukehaien]

Besides the above concerns, ably voiced by tattoobradley and turpin, I notice:
1) None of the pages besides the kilts page work. This tells me that these are people who do not pay attention to detail. Not who I want making a kilt for me.
2) They misspelled "Jewelry". Again, lack of attention to detail - and also a sign of people who don't have a lot of business sense.
3) Their first page says that they will be adding tartan kilts in September 2006. Clearly they don't update their website enough ... which makes me worry about issues with both pricing and availability. I also wonder how secure the website may be, since they don't seem very web-savvy.

It'll be a while before I order anything from them - if I ever do. If they do turn out to have an actual storefront presence, then I might go by and take a look at belts and things (since I can't on the website).

[Chefdave]

I hate to say it but those look horrible. The lack of attention to detail is a bad sign IMHO.

[RockyR]

While Kelly and I don't hire a professional photographer to come in for a session to shoot all of our products professionally for the store, we DO try to make sure the kilts (and other products) look as nice as posible before we take the pics and THEN we double check the pics themselves before we put them online! Are these pics are supposed to represent how one of their kilts should look at it's best?