Opinions on MacGregor and MacDuff?

[TheOfficialBren]

I have very little to add to the excellent advice above except:

They are WAAAAAAAAAAAAY overpriced! No two-ways about it! Correct me if I'm wrong but £400 is creeping close to $700 USD, correct? I would never pay that much, even for a hand-stitched kilt. Sorry. Too much money. Plenty of world-class kiltmakers with world-class reputations can make you a very, very fine kilt that will outlast the wearer by decades for far less than that (8-yarders in heavyweight wool, too)!
I know of one expert kiltmaker who can do an 8-yard REGIMENTAL WEIGHT (very expensive fabric) kilt for about $500 USD. Why one would need a kilt that heavy I haven't the foggiest idea but some folks swear by them (then-again, I live in Southern California and our summers exceed 100*F so...there's that).

As you are in Edinburgh I would think that an afternoon out and about would yield far better prices and options (not-to-mention great quality goods).

I started out by buying a casual kilt in P/V (polyviscose, a lighter weight hypoallergenic wool alternative) and graduated up to heavyweight wool after a few months of testing to see if I like kilts. I do, obviously, like them.

Just my tuppence.