Velcro??

[Colin]

Rocky, the kilt that pills the most is the Canadian tartan one. The marton mills PV has behaved very well, but I have noticed the odd pill in worn spots. This may be due to the chain on the sporran (sorry Hamish) or rubbing of the belt. Not bad at all compared to the other, but it has happened. The Marton Mill stuff you guys use is heads and shoulders above the other PV sources I own. The Candian tartan kilt is about 3.5 years and the MM PV kilt is about 3 years old. It was when the manufactrer of my first few kilts (you know who it is) first started using them as a source. It is teflon coated though.

As for the velcro, as I said, I don't have one of your kilts, but the stuff my old kiltmaker uses is pretty thick and pretty strong stuff. It never came undone, but I found it would (or the fabric would) stretch a bit throughout the day the same as a pair of jeans would. You could pull the kilt as tight as you could first thing that morning, but during the day it could use a tightening or two to secure it. If someone wears the same jeans alot, they will find that the fabric stretches abit over time. From personal experience, I think this has to do more with where a kilt sits than the velcro, but I can only go by what kilts I own, and what I have experienced over the past few years with the PV kilts. If you guys haven't had anyone mention that, that's great, that is my biggest complaint about some of my older kilts.

I do reinforce that the velcro closures do give a kilt a nice clean appearance, and that they don't look cheap at all when they are made by companies that put time, effort, and care into their products.