From time to time I see questions on the board about the polyviscose fabric USA Kilts uses for their kilts. I had the same questions before I tried my first PV kilt. Here's an example of how bulletproof I've found the PV fabric. And, for the record since I bought my first PV kilt from Rocky I now own eleven casuals and three semi-trads with three more semi-trads on order.

This weekend I only took one kilt with me to visit my girlfriend down in Keams Canyon on the Hopi Reservation. There's a picture of it, the Macdonald semi-traditional PV from USA Kilts, in the photos section under the heading of meeting people while kilted.

Its a three hour drive from Page, AZ to Keams Canyon. I drove down by way of Hwy 89 through Bitter Springs, Cedar Ridge, and The Gap to Hwy 160 then east to Tuba City where I picked up Hwy 264 through the Hopi Reservation over Third and Second Mesa to Polacca and Keams Canyon.

Once I got there we went out to dinner at the Hopi Cultural Center and I drove back to Second Mesa, sat in a booth at the restaurant for at least an hour, then drove back to Keams Canyon.

The next morning I drove home up over Black Mesa. The route isn't on most maps since a lot of it is dirt roads, but it was back to Polacca, up Hopi Route 4 to Low Mountain, then over to Pinon and Navajo route 41 to
Forest Lakes, through the Black Mesa Coal Mine complex, down the mesa to Black Mesa store and route 160, then west to Mesa View and North on Hwy 98 past Shonto, Inscription, and Kaibeto then home to Page.

Its a beautiful drive, near therapeutic in its beauty. But I'm sitting on the kilt the whole time.

I figure I sat on that kilt for at least 8 hours of the 30 hours the trip lasted. When I got home I hung it up. I was amazed to see the pleats weren't wrinkled. There were some wrinkles in the very top front of the apron from my belly 'cause I'm fat.

This morning when I woke up I noticed the belly wrinkles had hung out without needing to be steamed and I double checked the pleats to see if I'd missed seeing any wrinkles there, I hadn't, still looking good.

So, I can tell anyone wondering that you can sit in a PV Semi-traditional for eight hours and not worry about getting the pleats wrinkled. And I'm no fuss budget about pleat sweeping. I do it, but its a casual pleat sweep at best. And on the two three-hour drives I stopped twice for one thing or another so the pleats got a few minutes rest and maybe I sat on them different for the next hour.

Eight hours, no wrinkles. No bull, just fact. Ya see why I buy these great looking PV kilts??

Ron