The kilt to pants price ratio is startling, but not because kilts seem expensive. Instead, the price of pants is amazingly low. Consider the shipping from far-off lands, labels, pricing, warehousing, ordering, stocking, sales clerks salaries, management, rent, taxes, etc., I'm suprised that they can sell them for what they do even if they obtained them for free. As for the folk abroad who make them, and all the folk down south who no longer make them... Anyway, Alan's figures are probably way low.