There has been some good ideas floated already and I would not argue with any of them. However there is another way of looking at this, it may not be popular in this modern day and age of instant gratification, but if looked at in the long term it will work out the cheapest way. Gentlemen save your pennies ,wait,save more pennies and wait again. Whilst waiting do your homework and then buy the best. Forget all this cutting corners with cut down this or that, forget the 5 yard cost cutting kilt, forget making do, forget the buying of umpteen kilts, umpteen jackets, umpteen kilt pins, umpteen bonnets, umpteen sporrans, umpteen kilt hose and the list goes on. I am not at all sure the sponsors will like me saying this, but they are in business to sell to us all, whatever they can and as much as they can at a given quality that the customer is prepared to afford-------- that is how they make money and there is nothing wrong with that. But for me, I want to look in my wardrobe and see one or two things that may well be expensive, but I know they are the best and will last many years, decades at least. I do not want to see a wardrobe full of whims and fancies that work out even more expensive than I dare think, in the cold light of day!