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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadbelly View Post
    Oh, as much as it pains me to do so, I really must include a negative experience here.

    When I tore open the bag, the most horrible smell of leather came wafting out and assaulted the room. I mean, really... It was the most heavenly smell of leather you could possibly imagine. Overpowering. I felt my nostrils curl and my knees quiver. THAT WAS A DIRTY TRICK TO MAKE ME LUST AFTER A LEATHER KILT! I'm not stoopid, I'm on to your tricks. After I unrolled my eyeballs from the back of my skull and ripped open the bag a little more, even more of that smell came creeping out. I know what you did... Somehow you pumped wonderful leather kilt smelling air in to the bag before you shipped it.

    I'm telling you, that man is canning the air from his workshop and bombing his customers with this addictive substance. You have been warned.

    OPEN CAREFULLY IN A WELL VENTILATED ROOM!
    Stop it Dread all I'm doing now is searching hemp kilts. Aside from Robert (whom, when I'm man enough to wear hemp, I will buy from) who else produces hemp kilts? In my searching it appears only RKilts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ccga3359 View Post
    Stop it Dread all I'm doing now is searching hemp kilts. Aside from Robert (whom, when I'm man enough to wear hemp, I will buy from) who else produces hemp kilts? In my searching it appears only RKilts.
    Nobody else that I know of. Well, there was one shoddy outfit called The Hilt or something, buncha rip off artists, there was posts about it here on XMarks.

    Buy the hemp kilt. Just do it. Nothing else like it. Really. Hemp is the future of kilts. Pretty soon with the new dye processes and the ability to spin hemp in new ways, you will probably be seeing tartan kilts made out of hemp. Hemp tweeds. I am eyeballing a roll of fabric right now that is TWENTY ounce hemp herringbone fabric that would make a kilt to die for. I've studied hemp, I've delved deep in to many aspects of it. I am facinated by it. Fixated on it beyond all other things.

    Why wait? Buy the future now. Robert is offering a lovely glimpse of what is to come for the future of all clothing. The thread that Robert sewed the kilt with and the leather will probably wear out long before the hemp fabric does, unless of course it was sewn with hemp thread...

    It really is unique... Once it softens up, I bet nothing else will drape like it, hang like it, or ripple in the wind like it. Much like wool, hemp is entirely unique is how it behaves. If you are going to have a kilt, more importantly, if you are going to have a GOOD kilt, you know, something that you really sink some money in to to have something special then you should invest in hemp or wool. Me, I dribble my drinks. I live in a freakishly hot tropical climate. I abuse my clothing. I don't iron. What I wear must endure my abuse. And I had the choice between a wool tank and a hemp tank... And I chose hemp this time. Wool can't be thrown in a washer and washed... And I can't be bothered to drag out a bucket and handwash something. I finally bought something that is almost as tough as I am. It will take all of the abuse that only I could dish out at it. It will very likely survive prolonged contact with my acidic skin. It will survive the occasional barfing, bloody noses, and my accident prone lifestyle. It will survive and gain character from me flopping out and sitting down haphazardly with out fully smoothing down each and every pleat. It will survive me wiping my messy hands on my hips after I am elbow deep in bread dough or whatever I may encounter in the kitchen. Me dribbing corn bread batter down the front of my apron will be no cause for alarm.

    In short, the hemp kilt will survive any and all contact with my life, how I live it, and how life effects me. I have found a life long companion that I know will endure all I have to offer and not give out on me.

    I'd advise that you do the same.

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