I too have covetted an ex-military kilt. Recently I snagged one off eBay for just over $100 CAN: a Black Watch kilt, built (according to the seller) around the same time I was-1953. Its in perfect shape, not even showing marks from a kilt pin. When first I strapped it on I could barely get the straps buckled at the first hole, until I remembered that military kilts ride high. I hitched it up over the bottom of my ribs and easily buckled it to the second set of holes on the straps. Clearly, this baby is made to last and, as you say, is seasonably welcome. I wore it out for the first time to a New Years Eve celebration and survived with aplomb. With any luck it will still be wearable when I celebrate Mozart's 300th and my own 103rd birthday in 2056!