I have a Heritage of Scotland PV "16 oz" 8 yard kilt. For a general knockabout kilt for activities where you might get an expensive wool kilt dirty, it's hard to beat for the price. But as they say, you get what you pay for (mine was actually the next grade up but the description was very similar).
The cloth in mine is actually Polyviscose (I had a chemist friend test a couple of the fringe threads for me) but 16 oz? I think not. They used to post the shipping weight on their website but it no longer seems to be there - it was about 2 kg as far as I remember. When I asked them about it, they said it had the look and swing of a 16 oz kilt and indeed it does. I believe some of their kilts are made overseas (Pakistan, Bangladesh) but mine wasn't. I've been happy with mine because I did the research first and knew what to expect.
As has been noted earlier, the fell stitching (machine) is external and the belts have 6 holes, about an inch apart. The kilt lengths are all 24 inches, so that may or may not suit you. They are built as lower rise casual kilts, rather than the higher military style. And make sure you don't have any roughness on your sporran, otherwise, they will pill.
All that said, they are value for what you pay for them and if you spill anything on them, it's not a great loss, though they do clean up rather easily. Would anyone know they are low end budget kilts? Members of this forum, yes, the other 95+% of the population, very unlikely - I get compliments on mine.
Regards, Sav.
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