Buying kilts is bad for the environment!

[mddock58]

What I also find funny, is by their own website's statistics, textiles only represent 5% of household waste! Just think of how little of that would be kilts anyway!

[Colin]

What I also find funny, is by their own website's statistics, textiles only represent 5% of household waste! Just think of how little of that would be kilts anyway!

...And yet how many pairs of cheap jeans, shirts, shorts, etc that are bought from cheapo retailers are worn and tossed every week? Look at the numbe rof thrift stores that are full of clothing. I haven't seen any kilts in those places.......I can see the case for the $30 kilts on ebay, but not a real traditional made Scottish kilt or even the new contemporary kilts in the hundreds of $$$$.

This is plain silly.

[McClef]

Boy there are some crazy people about!

Where will it end? Why not share socks and underwear too? :confused:

[Cawdorian]

Where will it end? Why not share socks and underwear too? :confused: [/QUOTE]

Now that's going just a bit to far.

The kilt making and textile industry is good for Scotland's economy.

[Ialtog]

...And yet how many pairs of cheap jeans, shirts, shorts, etc that are bought from cheapo retailers are worn and tossed every week? Look at the numbe rof thrift stores that are full of clothing. I haven't seen any kilts in those places.......I can see the case for the $30 kilts on ebay, but not a real traditional made Scottish kilt or even the new contemporary kilts in the hundreds of $$$$.

This is plain silly.

This is what struck me as really odd. I serve on my city's sustainability committee and my professional life is awfully focused on waste issues. I think about solid waste a lot more than the average bird, I would guess. Cheap, disposable clothes (like these *&%! jeans I'm wearing right now that barely lasted two years) are much more of an annoyance. A well crafted kilt would last several lifetimes. It seems to me the kind of craftmanship illustrated by kiltmakers should be used as a terrific example of building for a lifetime, and not the moment. To me, kilts are a symbol of sustainability.

[cessna152towser]

Well this was rubbished by a kiltmaker interviewed on BBC Scotland news tonight who explained the durability of kilts.

[Tattoo Bradley]

WHAT?!?!?!?!



What a LOAD!!!

[pdcorlis]

Attention

Any of you gentlemen who have been throwing away your 37" waist 42" hip kilts - please forward them to me for "re-use"...

This has been a public service announcement.

[McClef]

Cawdorian - I was joshing at the stupidity of the logic behind the original argument.

[Andrew Green]

They did seem more concerned with textiles being tossed, and wanting to raise awareness of this. It seems like they just tossed kilts in there because they couldn't think of something better. Indeed you can RRR many textiles... what did people do with their old plaides when they had worn out? Use them to make something else. or if it is that far gone, small throws, rags, perhaps some hose... who knows? People have been re-using wool from kilts for likely as long as there have been kilts. Granted wool doesn't wear fast, but in the days when belted plaides were the norm, I could see them wearing out sooner than today's garments...and people were much more thirfty then.

Dunno where I was particularly going with this, but there's a little of my POV.