Popularising Kilts by Bringing Prices Down

[GlassMan]

If you click on the pictures you can see closeups of the kilts. Quite frankly, they look almost indistinguishable from the cheap throw-away Pakistani imports on eBay. I was particularly disturbed by the almost perfectly rectangular apron and the very noticeable and odd hemline on the rightside of the upper apron. At the top it is quite far from the edge and then it angles to a slender hem on the bottom. It is very visually distracting.

I have no idea what they charge, but I'd be willing to bet that a SWK would be a better deal for the money. Still made in Pakistan but at least it's of good quality.

[bjcustard]

I could swear I've seen this site before, but with a different moniker... something other than McKilts... and I'm pretty sure we've discussed it before on this site... searching for 'McKilts' turned up nuthin... Must be too late at night, and I'm dreamin of that Loud McLeod I got off eBay this week...

[AckZel]

I wouldn't trust a kiltmaker named "McKilts"... How cheap can you make your company name to sound?

[Raphael]

Hamish had written something about this company before, but it wasn't anything positive about it.

[Kilteado]

Those kilts look to me like the ugliest school girl's skirts I've ever seen.

And if these are the best pictures they can do... they need a new marketing manager.

[Ugly Bear]

I wouldn't trust a kiltmaker named "McKilts"... How cheap can you make your company name to sound?

Huh? So having a name that begins with "Mc" makes you cheap? Dabbling with an ugly Scottish stereotype, are you?

Sadly, that seems to hold in this particular case. The website itself says, "Don't accept inferior knockoffs." Boy, who knows how many sales they talked themselves out of with that line?

[AckZel]

I didn't mean that. But it sounds like a souvenir shop doesn't it? Just using "Mc" beginning doesn't make a shop really 100% Scottish right? It feels they just try to ride with the "Mc". They try to make it look good and respectable by wrong means. "Mc" won't make you cheap by using it wrongly will. (By the way, motorbike club called "MC Kilts" would be just too cool!)

[cessna152towser]

Thanks all for your comments. I'm just looking for a cheap casual kilt for loafing around in; the three kilts which I currently own are all serious quality kilts which are too good for nipping out to the shops or sitting around the house and garden. On another thread, the kilts made by Mercy, although aimed at the punk/goth market, seem to have had a more favourable reception on this forum and despite their cheap price and use of cotton/polyester, seem to look like a more accurate representation of the male scottish kilt, so I may decide to get one of these, which at £24.99 seems a reasonable buy for the money. The McKilts come in around the same price and sounded tempting as they are marketed here in Scotland (some of the tourist shops in places like Edinburgh and Fort William stock them, compared with the Mercy kilt which seems to be only available by mail order) but from what I've seen and read I don't think the McKilt would pass muster.

[GlassMan]

Thanks all for your comments. I'm just looking for a cheap casual kilt for loafing around in; the three kilts which I currently own are all serious quality kilts which are too good for nipping out to the shops or sitting around the house and garden. On another thread, the kilts made by Mercy, although aimed at the punk/goth market, seem to have had a more favourable reception on this forum and despite their cheap price and use of cotton/polyester, seem to look like a more accurate representation of the male scottish kilt, so I may decide to get one of these, which at £24.99 seems a reasonable buy for the money. The McKilts come in around the same price and sounded tempting as they are marketed here in Scotland (some of the tourist shops in places like Edinburgh and Fort William stock them, compared with the Mercy kilt which seems to be only available by mail order) but from what I've seen and read I don't think the McKilt would pass muster.

If you really want a reasonably priced kilt that actually looks good, checkout Stillwater Kilts Economy line.

[ByDand]

Their web page says it all when they say "our kilts are exclusively imported by us". The custome kilt page says they need an order for 500 kilts!!! Glassman is right when you take a close look at the kilts they do seem to be of questionable quality. Personally I'll stick with what we have here on the site and those who contribute to us. I think this is why the Scottish kilt manufacturers are up in arms over CHEAP knockoffs. With truth in advertising, maybe McKilts should be called McKnockoffs!