Been saving up for my next kilt purchase. Planning on a blue denim lined PK and was going to order this week. Now Jeff is temporarly out of the game.

So, I think to my self, I'll order a 5 yard heavy weight tartan from Scottishkilts.net, they have had some good feedback here receintly. But they don't seem to have any tartan that I want (trying to keep some kind of relationship to the tartan even though I have none to my tank). Aberdeen, nope (a tartan police book says that someone with my last name should only wear this), Thompson (mother's maiden name) of any kind, no, and forget the Kentucky or US Army (not surprising since they are in Scotland). Still they claim to have 1000 tartans for crying out loud.

I check out Avance Highland - same deal.

www.scottishclansman.com has the tartans in light weight 4 yard that costs more that the 5 yard heavy weight from the first two kiltmakers, so that sucks.

Alexis Malcom has the Army tartan at least (don't know about others since they have no tartan list) tartans, but their 5 yard heavy weight is over $130 more in price. Same with the kilt store (even with our discount). I can actually get Kentucky if I'm willing to pay $423 for a 5 yard machine stitched kilt. Side note our discount at the kilt store means almost cr@p. They say that they have 5 yard kilts starting at $185, but once you start looking at tartans, the cheapest one I have found so far is $278 for 11 oz (with our discount) and most are $3-400 (again for a 5 yard machine stitched).

So basically I can just buy a tartan that I like for a reasonable price, or I can buy "My" tartan (one of them) and be screwed out of an extra $150-250 just to please the tartan police.

Very frustrating.

Adam