Good day,

I would like to get a few opinions/feedback on a couple kilt options I am entertaining at the moment please.

I'm currently in grad school and after I finish up in about a year or so me and the missus are thinking about taking a bit of time off and taking a trip somewhere, possibly Scotland/Ireland, or Aus/NZ, and likely with a tour company. When you do these things there are always organized evenings out and nice diners and such. My thinking is I'll bring a kilt for these events because, well, why not =)

I don't hoever, wish to bring my nice hand-made heavyweight kilt, just in case I spill beer at a pub, or sleep "rough" in it, or otherwise wreck my good kilt. So I'm thinking of picking up a cheaper poly-vis kilt that I can spill away at and toss in a washer. Has anyone here bought a knockabout kilt like this and gone through a similar thought process? If so, can you please point me in a good direction?

I've checked out the "Heritage of Scotland" website and they have some really good and cheap poly-vis 8 yard kilts for about $60CAD, which is great even if you tack on 20-30% for tariff. Plus they have the MacDonald Tartan (I have MacDonald on one side of the family). Has anyone ordered from them? Feedback?

Though most of the stuff on ebay seems a bit dodgy there do seem to be two ok ebay stores "MacDonald Sporrans" and "Edinburgh Kilt Company" that seems to have decently priced and decently made poly-vis kilts. Of course with these companies I'd have to go with a Royal Stewart tartan, but that's ok, the missus is Stewart on one side (Anderson on the other), so I don't feel too unjustified, haha. Is anyone familiar with these companies?

Thanks very much in advance, any of your thoughts and experiences will certainly be helpful and appreciated!

Cheers!