With Musharraf declaring a state of emergency in Pakistan (seems to be to prevent losing his power), this will likely affect Pakistani made kilt goods and tartan. I know that some of the vendors on this site who offer excellent value kilts and accessories use tartan or materials made in Pakistan.

Just putting two and two together, the Pakistani unrest will seriously disrupt the supply of affordable kilts out there. Don't get me wrong, I'm still saving up to get a Scottish wool, custom made tank but it appears that there will be a shortage of knockaround, sport-type, pub crawl kilts (which I wear more anyway).

Maybe I need to look into AlanH's XKilt directions because I expect the price of the affordable kilts to go up and the supply to go down. Economics comes to the kilted world.