I meant to write this post last fall after returning from my Scottish Golf Odyssey, where I carried three 16oz kilts and all my hose, flashes, sporrans, belts, and headwear in an original SkyRoll as carry on and ground luggage for 9 days travel. But am glad I waited as I recieved a second larger and wheeled version for my birthday a couple months ago, which I think may be the final soution on how to travel efficiently with 1-3 kilts and kit, or 1-2 kilts and a jacket and your kit.

SkyRoll makes two different pieces of carry-on or checked luggage that is designed as a central plastic tube with an outer wraparound garment hanger bag, the original just a smaller simple tube-shaped 8 inch rounded off triangle, and the wheeled version a rounded off 8x12 inch tube with wheels and an extending handle with the same outer wraparound garment bag. These are originally designed for one-two suiters who travel for business for a couple days and are meant to carry your suits/jackets in the outer wraparound garment bag, with some thin pieces of clothing in the wrap as well, and then bulkier items like shoes and kit bag in the center tube. The tubes are nylon canvas covered and zippered at each end while the wraparound garment bag portions are like a miniature version of a larger travel garment bag having a zipped closure and sub compartments, with the latter snapping and velcroing onto the outside of the former with delryn straps and snaps. The idea is that your suits are wrapped around the outside of a smooth edged a tube rather than folded during travel, thus diminishing wrinkles. The larger version is capable of taking folded laundered shirts in the tube rather than hangered dress shirts in the garment bag portion.

I used the standard one to (barely) carry three kilts and the above kit as a shoulder strap born carry on for my golf oddyssey, and anticipate being able to use my newer and larger rolling and handled one for similar use with a bit more space. Three kilts in my size were a real stretch for the original but should work better with the larger rollling version. Obviously works fine for suits as it was designed for this.



Original on left, larger rolling version on right.



Backside of each showing the delryn snaps and nylon straps for the garment bag portions.



Open roll garment bag ready for loading with your dress gear/kilts, with one end still snapped to the outside of the larger rolling version, and the original in the background.

They can be seen at skyroll.com and most easily purchased at Menswearhouse.com or menswearhouse stores, $99 for the original and $199 for the rolling version, but a smart shopper can find them for 10-25% off around the holidays or on sales frequently, and even more discounted if you are a frequent shopper at the stores as they have special coupons and a money-back program at the stores.

They should work well for kilts up to about 44" waist give or take---anything larger and you may need to fold over an edge of a kilt to get it into the garment bag, which increases the risk of wrinkling obviously. It is actually pretty amazing how much of your kit you can squeeze into the tube as well. Highly recommended. I am planning a 5 day trip to Hong Kong in late June and will likely take the roller and another carry on for that trip than check any luggage--still deciding whether to go with a kilt for travel, as it is a business trip and a kilt may be marginal dress for my meetings this time, whereas it was perfect for golf last summer (at least at most golf courses).

jeff