Quote Originally Posted by kiltedpride
Well I do know what you mean - I use one of my first kilts as a working kilt - it is my Clan Farquharson kilt and is 20 years old - it has a small tear but that gives it character. I wear it round the house and out sometimes to the pub or out shagging and it serves me well. I think one should have an old kilt in the wardrobe
Couldn't agree with you more, Jaimie...I'm limited only by finances from having 4 or 5 handsewn wool kilts ( I actually have an order in for my second one right now). Still, I'm not sure that a traditional kilt must be the ultimate goal for all kilt wearers. Some may never feel the need to own one, while others will never own a contemporary kilt. Would you have us differentiate by calling the contemporaries MUG? And if so, that would still include the traditional kilt by definition. In your earlier post you mentioned that your local "market' was flooded with cheap overseas knockoffs, and that the professional kiltmakers were suffuring for it; yet I would argue that people who buy 19 or 29 pound kilts would never be potential customers of a traditional kilt...I agree that such products could certainly foster a very poor impression of kilts in general by the uneducated, though.

Bryan...it always seems to come down to money...