Why a kilt costs what it does...a re-re-re-hash

[Alan H]

Quite a few times in this thread the question has come up.....

"If there's so little money to be made making kilts, then why are so many people doing it?"

Ummmmmmmmm.............

Perhaps we forget that this is X Marks the Scot, the biggest kilt-related board in the world. Perhaps we forget that most all (certainly not ALL, but certainly more than half) of the kiltmakers in the country have a presence on or an advertisement with...or they are at least members of this forum.

Don't forget that there are a LOT more tailors and small tailoring companies in North America than there are kiltmakers. A LOT. A whole, whole, whole, whole LOT more tailors than there are kiltmakers. There's a reason.



Fringe, gang....Fringe. We are a complete and utter fringe in the clothing world. There's not a freaking dime to be made doing this, in comparison to the mainstream US clothing industry. Do not get the idea that because you see something on X-Marks, that it's the "real world."

This board is a marketing Disneyland. Fantasy. Playtime. The sandbox of a few custom and small-businessmen and women who can feed their kids and maybe keep one or two or five employees busy. Period. It is emphatically NOT the Real World of Clothing Manufacturing.
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Edited because I'm a freaking windbag.