Oh I so do hate that...just posted a long comparison for you and it didn't take. Will try again and copy it this time if the site is down.

I have a brown leather Utilikilt, the old single pocket style with the corset lacing on the side which gives a wide size range.

Thought I was ordering a black leather UK but the old radio buttons on their old website apparently flipped on me and I never got an acknowledgement (they say that was somehow my fault) and didn't know I was supposed to get an acknowledgement...so was surprised and dissapointed when the brown showed up instead of the black. But, it smelled so good gave it a chance and today I'm glad I wound up with the brown instead of the black.

Wish UK would put instructions on working the corset lacing in with the kilt. I finally found instructions on the Internet. Its complicated for a guy with no background in corsets.

The leather is soft inside and bulletproof on the outside. Somehow its cool in the heat of the Arizona summer and toasty in the foul weather of winter. Its great on long drives, no worry about pleat creases. I often take it on weekend trips as my only kilt since its easy to dress up or dress down. It gets a lot of oooohs and aaaahhs.

With only one back pocket I normally wear it with a brown Freelander sporran or a vest for my stuff.

Funny, was pumping gas in it last weekend up in Flagstaff and the guy at the next pump asked what clan I was....started to say Bovine but played it straight. Turns out his son's getting married soon and having a kilted wedding in his family tartan.

I also have a saffron leather RKilt. I prefer to call it buckskin. The RKilt leather is just as bulletproof as the UK leather but its a bit softer. Robert of course offers many shades of leather where I think UK is now just black. Not sure what pockets UK is putting on their leather now. Robert has cargo pockets that have pockets within pockets. No need for a sporran or vest.

Robert is also happy to send you swatches of his leather colors because he knows you'll get hooked on the wonderful smell and soon be sending money his way. Rkilts uses the traditional three strap kilt closure method rather than the corset lacing that UK does.
You can't go wrong with either kilt. The value is there. I would suspect that RKilts sells more leather kilts than UK. And since Robert is doing the sewing at RKilts I would suspect he's more experienced at sewing up leather kilts than the sewing folks at UK...but could be wrong.

Go ahead, treat yourself.

And, I have pics of both my leather kilts in the field in my galleries if that helps you any.

Ron