Just a comment here. While I quoted 4 hours to make a "casual" kilt, I by NO means think that any of the kiltmakers on this forum actually do that. Rocky, Bear, King Kilts, Freedom....you guys don't crank out your product in four hours. No way. I figured that it would probably take a full day to mostly machine-sew a casual kilt. I figured on two days or even three for a hand-sewn kilt. Turns out that I was more-or-less right.

The four hours is my totally uneducated guess at what a production house, with bulk fabric slicers, high speed sewing machines, totally standardized patterns and so on could do. It everything were automated as much as possible, sweatshop style, and everything were simplified I'm guessing that a production shop employing 20 people could crank out about a thousand kilts a month. That means each kilt would take roughly four hours. Actually, four hours might be too much. They might need to get it down to 3 hours or less.

You want to know why you can buy a pair of Levi's blue jeans for $26 at Mervyn's or Target or Wal-Mart?

http://www.uri.edu/personal/svon6141...nsweatshop.htm

That's why. They pay their seamstresses less than twenty-five cents an hour, that's why.

http://www.sweatshops.org/news/2004-...he-border.html

http://www.pww.org/article/articleprint/2482/

Buy Bear.
Buy USAK.
Buy Freedom Kilts.
Buy King Kilts (you gotta charge more, dude. No fair having your wife work for less than minimum wage. Charge ten bucks more. Nobody will feel it and you'll actually put some food on the table.)

Buy a Kilt from Barb. Buy a Kilt from MAC Newsome.

Buy a kilt from them because they turn out a quality piece of work at a low, but fair price for what you get and they love what they do and nobody is making some obscene wage of twenty three lousy cents an hour. Wear that garment with pride, knowing what wnet into it and that you did the right thing.[/i]