New member with some ex hire kilts

**bwat** · 11th September 14, 08:59 AM

Hello, I've learned a fair amount from the forum over the past few weeks so I thought it only fair that I give a little back by giving some info on some ex hire kilts I've recently bought from ebay. I was a bit worried that ex hire would be a bit of a gamble and there's not too much about ex hire in the archives so I decided to give it a shot and not expect too much but as you'll see it turned out better than I had expected.

First we have a "highland mist" tartan. This is a 36 in waist kilt. I don't have the numbers with me right now but I think I remember that I counted 73 setts of width 125mm giving a length of 9.125m or 9.9 yd. I took a picture of the strap as well and all straps are in the same good condition.

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Now we see the "Strath blue" which is has a 34 in waist. Again I don't have the exact numbers with me but I recall that the sett count was 80 and the sett width was 95mm giving 7.6m or 8.3 yd. The straps are in the same good condition as demonstrated above.

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All in all I'm delighted and never expected an ex hire kilt to be of such good quality. I don't know how much they weigh but they're "heavy". So to the price, well they were only 99 pounds each. The seller is called tartan4less on the UK ebay. I have no connection with the seller other than the purchase of the two kilts above.