just back from a long weekend in Edinburgh

[Riverkilt]

Hey P1M,

You must have ordered up one of the cotton SportKilts. If you spring for the sewn down pleats, custom length, belt loops, and not they even offer fringing, and get it in polyesther, they're not bad for the price.

But then you're up in the price range of a USAKilt casual.

Hmmm, that raises a comparison issue for another thread.

Ron

[Hamish]

Cheap, nasty kilts do have their place, 'tis true. However, there are cheap kilts and cheap kilts! Those costing around £90 are probably wearable (indeed we have TONO's word on that), but I suspect the cheap kilts that Paul saw around Edinburgh's Royal Mile were those selling for about £30 and made from about 1½ yards of tartan 'fabric'. Frankly, I wouldn't clean a car with one of those things!

As I have related here before, several years ago I questioned the Manager of a shop near Edinburgh Castle displaying £20 kilts. He freely admitted that they were snatched up in the High Season by American and Japanese tourists who took them home to pin up, trophy-like, on their den walls - he doubted they would ever be worn! When I suggested that they should then be promoted as 'pretend' or 'display' kilts, the Manager leapt to his own defence and told me that if he did that, no-one would buy them. The customers thought they were real kilts!!!

[Kiltman]

Like so much else in life, you get what you pay for! Sadly ignorance and price go together to separate the customer from his money.