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23rd October 08, 05:21 PM
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Can't Hurt To Ask
So I'm in St. George, Utah down in the SW corner of the state in the red cliffs country. I spot a Deseret Store (LDS/Mormon Thrift Store) its BIG...so figure just maybe there might be a tweed jacket in there. When I walked in I figure it can't hurt to ask so I ask the checkout clerk, "Do you have any men's kilts?" She lit up and said, "Wow, someone else was just in here a couple of days ago and asked me the same thing!"
So hey...is this a kilt fashion boom or what? - if kilties are checking out the LDS thrift store in St. George!?
Ron
Last edited by Riverkilt; 23rd October 08 at 05:44 PM.
Ol' Macdonald himself, a proud son of Skye and Cape Breton Island
Lifetime Member STA. Two time winner of Utilikiltarian of the Month.
"I'll have a kilt please, a nice hand sewn tartan, 16 ounce Strome. Oh, and a sporran on the side, with a strap please."
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23rd October 08, 05:38 PM
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Impressive...so did they?
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23rd October 08, 05:38 PM
#3
This kiltie keeps an eye on the thrift stores in north Ga! Almost half of my kilts were found in them.
A bit of advice- look in the womens section. All the kilts I've found have been mixed in with dresses and skirts
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23rd October 08, 05:41 PM
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That was me - just passing through- not, just kidding. But I was a beneficiary of Deseret Industries many times growing up in a single parent family in Salt Lake, I don't think I ever got any tweed though.
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23rd October 08, 05:46 PM
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Well jeez Breeze...now I gotta go back tomorrow on my way out of town. Thanks for the tip. Guess its crazy to expect "normies" to know a man's kilt on sight.
Ron
Ol' Macdonald himself, a proud son of Skye and Cape Breton Island
Lifetime Member STA. Two time winner of Utilikiltarian of the Month.
"I'll have a kilt please, a nice hand sewn tartan, 16 ounce Strome. Oh, and a sporran on the side, with a strap please."
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23rd October 08, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Southern Breeze
This kiltie keeps an eye on the thrift stores in north Ga! Almost half of my kilts were found in them.
A bit of advice- look in the womens section. All the kilts I've found have been mixed in with dresses and skirts
You may have started a stampede to all the local thrifts.
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23rd October 08, 06:16 PM
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There are a half dozen Deseret Industries within 20 miles of me I always poke around and look for Kilts but have never asked. I think I will have a friend of mine who manages one down in Provo keep a look out for me.
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23rd October 08, 07:05 PM
#8
I live in a very "alternative" area of Sonoma County California and I've never seen a person in a kilt (other than myself) just going about their daily business, and my wife (who is a second hand fiend) has never run across a kilt in a thrift shop. I think that the US kilt fashion boom is starting in rural America and gradually, very gradually, working it's way out into the more populated areas--Seattle excepted, of course because of the UK.
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23rd October 08, 09:56 PM
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I've found (commericially made) kilted skirts in thrift stores -- including wrapping the other direction. Not quite the same thing, of course, as a kilt...
Wade.
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