Bear wrote, "If kilts were a new style of garment just invented, which fabric would be chosen? Try to make this choice without thinking 'tradition.'"

Looking at my current collection of kilts guess that would be cotton/poly and cotton. Have 11 Utilikilts, three AmeriKilts, three Pittsburgh Kilts, and two Freedom Kilts.

That's what works for around here.

For fancy wear I have the UK leather and the RK saffron leather, and two traditional wool hand sewns from Kathy's Kilts.

And...two SportKilts, think out of poly of some sort.

I can't say for sure why, over all the hours I've spent on line shopping for kilts and reading reviews of kilts that I've never signed up for a Bear Kilt or a USA Kilt or a Stillwater, et.al. First thing comes to mind is that I've not found a tartan offered that I wanted...that's my fault for wanting the obscure tartans to fit my obscure family clans...

Or, maybe its my latent fear that the lighter poly kilts would look too skirt-like. The solid UKs fit with the jeans and chinos bifurcated look, the leather stands alone, the wool fills the traditional bill.

So, even though I've come close a number of times I've yet to plunk down the money for poly kilts (other than the SportKilts) and chosen instead to go with camos and solids...I'm just realizing this and wondering why that is....??

If a kiltmaker made me a free gift of a poly kilt in a tartan I liked I'm not even sure I would wear it much...up here in the dirt and dust and sand the solid cotton/polys seem heartier...and the solid color or camo looks just seem to go better. When it came time to wear a tartan kilt to the highland games how could I not wear a traditional wool and strut my "gang colors?"

I'm not for or against either...just looking back at what I've done and wondering why?

If I lived in a large city my selections might be very different...

Imagining for a moment I were moving to the city I know I'd still wear my black UK workman's, my three UK mockers, the tan UK original and the Arizona Flag Tri-color from PK on special occasions. Don't think the camos would work for city wear...but that's my brain...and its often in question...

I think I'd feel more comfortable in a poly kilt in the city.

Jeez, what a bunch of rambling...home sick with the crud today..sinus pressing on the brain pan too hard.

Bye,

Ron