Sport and Utility Kilt makers- Uniform service

[tundramanq]

For playing grease monkey, I would stick with 100% cotton as oil and grease chemically and permanantly bind to syntetics. The nastyiest thing I see, other than the wash, is the high temperature driers and clothes laying in piles after they come out. Anything that take the TLC we normally use at home is out the window. It is the reason for the wrinkle proof industrial ( and thus hot ) fabrics they choose. Pleats other than sewn edges would not hold in these fabrics.

[Alan H]

Thorina, if you're an experiences seamstress, then build yourself some X Kilts out of this stuff -charcoal hemp/recycled polyester. It's such a dark charcoal that it's really just two subtle shades away from black.

http://marketplace.source4style.com/...oal-twill.html

$11.30 a yard is the cheapest I have ever seen it, ever..anywhere. It's usually twice that, or more. I made a box-pleated contempo kilt out of this stuff and LOVED IT... best stuff I've ever seen for a non-trad kilt. For all intents and purposes it was an X-Kilt. Then I sent it to El Salvador. Oy. True story.

At $11.30 a yard, I am buying 2 1/2 yards RIGHT NOW.

Just go over to the DIY forum and download the manual. You'll knock ojut the first one in 10-13 hours. The second one will take you 8-9. You don't like box pleats? Then build your X-Kilt as a reverse kinguisse, using sydnie7's instructions.

Or buy a few yards of this stuff and send it to Steve at Freedom Kilts.

[Alan H]

Oh, snargggg, that website is wholesale and/or requires a $35 membership. Look, here is where I bought the stuff I made my kilt out of.

http://www.envirotextile.com/chinese...ric/index.html

D697C • Charcoal
Twill Weave
77% Hemp
23% Recycled Poly
10oz Width 57/58"

Call them up and get prices. They primarily sell wholesale, but they will sell you retail, if you ask.

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also, here...

http://www.nearseanaturals.com/item.php?id=1542

[The Wizard of BC]

Um, Thorina,

I'm not sure where you came up with "so the nearly $400 each would not be reasonable in this instance."

The only time I can remember having a solid colored kilt come out to $400.00 was one with 12 pockets and needing shipping to Australia via overnight courier.

What you seem to be asking for is a pretty basic kilt:
Wide aprons,
Velcro or plastic clips for the closure,
Two or three pockets,
In a grease and oil resistant fabric,
Built to last through 100+ industrial washings.

This could be done for well within your stated budget.

[Thorina]

Thorina, if you're an experiences seamstress, then build yourself some X Kilts out of this stuff -charcoal hemp/recycled polyester. It's such a dark charcoal that it's really just two subtle shades away from black.

http://marketplace.source4style.com/...oal-twill.html

$11.30 a yard is the cheapest I have ever seen it, ever..anywhere. It's usually twice that, or more. I made a box-pleated contempo kilt out of this stuff and LOVED IT... best stuff I've ever seen for a non-trad kilt. For all intents and purposes it was an X-Kilt. Then I sent it to El Salvador. Oy. True story.

At $11.30 a yard, I am buying 2 1/2 yards RIGHT NOW.

Just go over to the DIY forum and download the manual. You'll knock ojut the first one in 10-13 hours. The second one will take you 8-9. You don't like box pleats? Then build your X-Kilt as a reverse kinguisse, using sydnie7's instructions.

Or buy a few yards of this stuff and send it to Steve at Freedom Kilts.

That's the issue, at the moment. I don't have 10 hours to do anything.
The only reason I am home surfing today is because I pulled a muscle in my back and decided heavy lifting wasn't the thing to do today. The better half is out of town and my laborer has the day off. (He's an athiest, so I gave him Good Friday off cuz I thought it was funny)

On my sewing table right now is valances for my SIL, a skirt to be hemmed for my MIL, valances for my wee one's room and adding extra corner gussets to our spiderman sheets. (I made spiderman sheets for our king sized bed because no one makes them)

Each "to do" item is maybe 2 hours long, if that....and they are dusty from sitting so long. LOL Seriously, though....my lack of time is why I bought 2 already made cheapos off ebay just to see if I liked them.
My first kilt project will be a completely, for fun modified great kilt to ride trials in.

It'll be a while until my schedule calms down enough to sit down and make uniforms for work. As well, once my real sewing table is set up (we're in the middle of a major home remodel)...then I will have plenty of room for stopping and starting projects. I can get things done far faster when I don't have to take out, then put away a project just to make or eat dinner.

I can't say I have more money than time, but I definately don't have the time, at the moment. It is one major reason I got the uniform service to begin with, as I have been overwhelmed with laundry at home while putting in long hours trying to get the shop and warehouse sussed up.
For $4 a week....let someone else do my shirts....for something less than several hundred each, let someone else make my work kilts.
Besides....gotta try to do my part for economic stimulous and such.

Terms: what's an Xkilt?

[tundramanq]

Gal, with so many irons in the fire, don't let the fire go out - Whew

[Thorina]

"so the nearly $400 each would not be reasonable in this instance."

The only time I can remember having a solid colored kilt come out to $400.00 was one with 12 pockets and needing shipping to Australia via overnight courier.

What you seem to be asking for is a pretty basic kilt:
Wide aprons,
Velcro or plastic clips for the closure,
Two or three pockets,
In a grease and oil resistant fabric,
Built to last through 100+ industrial washings.

This could be done for well within your stated budget.

I see the $250ish range and add a few pockets and US vs CA $$.....maybe $400 is a tad high, but not that high.

2 front slash pockets, one left side rear pocket (like jeans, no flap or button/snap) for a wallet.
No velcro, regular very plain ordinary buckles for regular leather or web straps would be fine.

Ok, I'll bite; my e addy is: revjaybird@yahoo (dot) com ....shoot me an estimate. I hadn't e mailed you directly because I didn't want to waste your time, as it didn't seem to within the realm of what I could afford.
I haven't seen the shirts yet, but I do think that even a Hamilton Grey would look good. As I am a Hamilton, that'd be ok, though a tad on the loud side. Or just plain black or very dark grey or a black taran of some sort.
I am only 5'3"....so a standard 24" drop is a tad too long.

[Riverkilt]

Robert is too modest. Sounds like you're talking about the leather RKilt with cargo pockets. You'd make up the cost in laundry savings.

[Thorina]

Gal, with so many irons in the fire, don't let the fire go out - Whew

It's just the way it goes. From mass amounts of mind numbing boredom, to HECTIC.
This is something that has been in the works for several years. The stars just recently aligned and now it's "show time", so to speak.
I had been working on the house for almost 2 years....but painting kilted just doesn't seem like a good idea. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
I'd rather deal with dirty greasy, grimy bikes than a paint brush anyway. The house is taking a back burner for a while. Other than the inconvenience, I'm totally ok with this house being on the back burner for a while. There's only so much Swiss coffee one can tollerate before completely going crazy.
Errr, crazier than usual.

[Steve Ashton]

Check your inbox Thorina.