Quote Originally Posted by Nanook View Post
Why grab for a less than stellar Asian replica of a Gordon Highlanders kilt when the market has large numbers of un-issued or 1st grade army kilts available. These tartans and patterns are, in an Army context, now obsolete. Army kilts have quite a different quality of material (expensive heavy wool spun tartan with a special sheen and feel that only Robert Noble could deliver), quite a different standard of workmanship (hand made by some of the finest kiltmakers in Scotland including Thomas Gordon & Sons of Glasgow) and more accurate pattern (literally the "real thing"). Unless one is of a size not available in military stocks (they did not go much beyond 38" waist or 28" in length) and one does not want to have one made up (the tartans are getting increasingly difficult to source as they were amalgamated nearly 15 years ago) I see no reason for anyone to purchase one as long as these surplus kilts are flowing into the market.
Nanook interesting point. Do you have any websites where the original issue could be obtained? I have only know of happy customers of the WPG's wares from the east. I am one too! But to have an original army issue would be a fine posession.