quality versus quantity

[Alan H]

If you're talking about spending twenty dollars, or forty or maybe, *heavens*...sixty dollars, then your options are limited. You're NOT going to get a kilt that you pass down to your grandchildren for sixty bucks. A kilt of that quality is going to cost you at least four hundred dollars, unless you make it yourself. These guys that are telling you to wait until you have enough money to buy a kilt that's handmade of the finest worsted wool...well, that's fine for them. However, it sounds to me that you're not rolling in wads of dough, and it's going to be a very long time before you have $400 of disposable income to blow...errr...invest in a kilt.


If you wear a kilt, you need a sporran. I mean, you sort of HAVE to have both of them. So if all you can afford for now and maybe for the next couple of years is under a hundred dollars, total, then get a kilt AND a sporran.

Look, I'm not a big fan of the Stillwater Thrifty's. I'm sorry, I'm just not. If I were you, I'd counsel waiting until you had eighty bucks to spend on a Stillwater Standard. But that's EIGHTY BUCKS, and even Stillwaters cheapest sporran, which will send lots of guys around here into apoplectic fits because it's made in Pakistan...is fifteen bucks. By the time you've paid for shipping you've spent over $100. If you don't have it, then you gotta do what you gotta do, if you want to be wearing a kilt.

The flat-out truth is that you can make a kilt for $40 worth of material that is a LOT better than a Stillwater Thrifty. However, that requires patience and some self-confidence and the ability to take on a project and stick to it.