My order from Lochcarron arrived

[OC Richard]

About cost, my usual tendency is to dismiss the concerns of people who buy Pakistani jackets because they say they can't afford UK made ones, or say they can't afford UK made sporrans, etc.

It's the very reason I started the thread about buying high-quality Scottish-made sporrans for less than the Pakistani ones cost.

I currently have three UK-made Argyll jackets. One I ponied up the money to purchase new because it was in a tweed I wanted that Marton Mills recently introduced.

But my charcoal grey UK-made Argyll and my Lovat Green UK-made Argyll were purchased for 75 pounds and 35 dollars respectively (firstly from a Kilt Hire shop in Ayrshire, due to the customer never picking up his bespoke jacket, and secondly an Ebay find).

But it's different with tartan! Because remote is the likelihood of a kilt fitting your measurements and being in a tartan you want.

So with accessories I pick up bargains, but with kilts and the fabric they're made from I pay the going rate because there's no alternative.

I'm not going to wear an acrylic or polyester kilt, I'm not going to wear a "casual kilt", so I gladly pay the price for real kilting cloth and a real kilt.