I don't mind people trying to make a kilt for themselves... I understand the "I did it myself" mentality. Generally, the material people get for their first kilt (bought at a local fabric shop) is "not the best" quality and figuring out how to make the first one is very difficult (it took us a LONG time to perfect our different designs). Trying to make one yourself actually HELPS people appreciate the $100 - $130 kilts that are out there now! I've had several people tell me that they tried to make a kilt themselves and gave up and ended up buying one of ours!

What I do NOT like is when people take our Casual kilt and copy it EXACTLY to make kilts for everyone they know. We had a lady come into our shop and straight up TELL us that she was making kilts for her wedding party. She said she wanted to see how we did it so she could copy our design for 5 kilts because she "didn't want to spend the money on rental or buying them". Needless to say, she wasn't in the shop much longer than that last sentence.

Alan used PART of our design and part of other company's kilt designs to make a kilt for himself and that's FINE... but stealing our design to replicate on several kilts for multiple people gets under my skin. Utilikilt has to deal with people (and small "fly by night" companies*) that try to rip off their EXACT design all the time (because they're bigger and more well recognized than us). I feel bad for them.

Sorry for the rant... back to the topic.


* "small fly by night" companies comment was NOT a reflection of FK, PK or RK... they all have ORIGINAL designs.