Two Telling comments? The Answer Perhaps?

[Cyd]

Cyd, interestingly, several of our UK customers have purchased scarves or yardage for a table runner...things like that. I figure, that's still great. The more the merrier, and I hope that the scarves fly off of Paul Henry's shelves. I'm not angry or upset about the likeliehood of sparse kilt sales in the UK, just curious. The whole point of the Wildcat Tartan exercise (for me) is to generate awareness. Like I've written several times...if we sell only six yards of tartan, but 50,000 Scots hear about the issue and become aware of it because of press releases and some celebrity trotting out the tartan on TV, then my little project is a huge WIN in my book. Well, we're going to sell something like 200 yards of tartan I think, when all is said and done. That's a lot more than six yards, so we'll see how the "awareness" thing pans out.

I am glad your tartan is selling "yardage" in Britain. I didn't even consider table runners and scarves. Let's hope they become really big sellers and your cause gets all the exposure it deserves.

As you probably know, places like Inverness, Blairgowrie and Braemar are not exactly metropolises. Everyone knows everyone. This is true even in some areas of larger cities like Aberdeen and Dundee. Trust me. If you have more than one kilt, even for the same clan, lots of people are likely to know about it before you even get a chance to wear one and for many it will seem extravagant.