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23rd April 09, 10:37 AM
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Real wool and heavyweight?
 Originally Posted by NancyMan
Its been, um, some time since I promised a review of the All Scottish kilt I won on eBay.  So what I now report is somewhat beyond a first impression. Its a nice darn kilt. Out of the box it seemed very like a Stillwater heavyweight in many ways. Both are constructed of good quality wool of equal weight, have decent construction, nearly the same number of pleats (Alscot 24, STW 22), identical buckles (though the leather of the STW belts has a better finish), and ironically they both suffered from apron and reverse pleat curl until I applied the steam iron cure. Both have a double fringe, kilt selvedge and a 7 inch inner lining. The Alscot pleats are 2 1/4 inches deep, the STW 3 1/4 inches. To me, both the Alscot and the STW are good generic "traditional" kilts priced at a point nearly anyone can afford. The one anomaly with the Alscot was that it was labelled 32 to 34 inch waist. Being rather elfin of body, I figured I'd need to move the inner strap and left buckles an inch or so to make it fit. Imagine my surprise when I could only cinch it to the middle hole of the straps. The kilt waist actually measures 29 to 31 inches. A perfect fit for me- but only by accident. I let the vendor know that he had a great product but needed to get his sizing issues sorted out or risk a lot of dissatisfied customers. Keep in mind that I may have gotten a sample kilt and not one of the regular run that are sold on the All Scottish website- http://www.allscottish.ca/index.php Sizing aside, I give the kilt an enthusiastic thumbs up.
These are the only pics I have:

So it was real wool and heavyweight?
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23rd April 09, 12:24 PM
#2
well
I just placed an order for their Sgian Dubh #3
It cost me $49 USD. SO that would make the shipping around 15-20 bones. I will post the quality for the price review when I recieve it.
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