Let me tell you what I was told from a WELL-KNOWN and FANTASTIC kiltmaker in Edinburgh about the Poly-Viscose material...

There's no denying that the material is a GREAT alternative to heavy wools. It washes easier. It dries better. It absorbs perspiration and dries-out MUCH faster than wool.

Their ONLY reservation to the material is the EXTREME care that must be utilized when making a kilt out of it. Wool has a certain amount of "give" when you sew it up. In other words, it stretches a bit when sewn. This allows for a little room when pleating and sizing. A 16 ounce wool has a cushion that contracts and expands, to hide any small flaws.

Poly-Viscose, on the other had, proudly displays any and all mistakes in the sewing process. It just doesn't have the "give" with its weight and weave. If the pleats aren't sewn straight, the hips aren't uniform, and the tapers completely and entirely uniform, the pleats will go in whatever direction they please! Look at one of the hand-sewn kilts from Scotland in the heavy wool material. Those pleats hang like there's a steel panel behind them. The PV kilts that aren't sewn carefully enough, will pinch, pucker and tuck to follow the mistakes.

This is when you really come to love it when you can get a kilt in PV that's solid. Simply put, it takes extra time... extra effort... extra care... extra patience... and extreme precision in pleating! That will REALLY come out when a PV kilt is washed and line-dried. If it's made CORRECTLY, the pleats will go right where they're supposed to, and ironing will be minimal.