Kilt Collection-Evolution Poll

**MacBean** · 23rd May 10, 08:09 AM

Started with a budget tartan kilt and then bought premium; I wear all evenly. That wasn't one of the options!

**thescot** · 23rd May 10, 12:26 PM

I started with a custom 13 oz (based on So You're Going to Wear . . .) because it gets real hot here. If I had it to do over, I'd probably get the 16 oz just because it's probably tougher for the long haul.

Then it was a 13 oz. great kilt, prefringed. Then a 13 oz 5 yd for hotter weather.

Next, i got a Gordon from WPG for cold weather and a Leatherneck wool from SWK for obvious reasons.

I will probably buy one more tank before I go that great gathering in the sky, but I don't know for sure.

Contemporary are not my style.

**xman** · 23rd May 10, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by thescot

Next, i got a Gordon from WPG for cold weather and a Leatherneck wool from SWK for obvious reasons.

Really, do you really find you need that much wool in your winter? Just asking because I'm considering one for myself for winter, but wonder if a 16 oz 8 yrd will be enough.

**fluter** · 23rd May 10, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by xman

Really, do you really find you need that much wool in your winter? Just asking because I'm considering one for myself for winter, but wonder if a 16 oz 8 yrd will be enough.

Other than the high extremes, I think either weight of wool would exhibit the kilt wearer's paradox: warm in cold weather, cool in warm weather. Unless you have a particular reason for wanting one of the military tartans, I think 16 ounce worsted would do the job, and the finish is soooo nice on the worsted kilting fabric.

Much of the Atlanta area runs 900-1000 feet elevation, so it can get pretty nippy over there.

I'm at the same latitude, more like 300 ft/90 meters up. We get freezing weather pretty often in winter, very very rarely to -10 Celsius (teens Farenheit). Eight yards of wool feels nice in winter, and of course the tank is my favorite dressy kilt at all times.

An 8 yard PV is in the works, and USAK semi-trads are the go-to summer kilt. Can you say "forty degrees Celsius?"

**fluter** · 23rd May 10, 05:30 PM

The first kilts I ordered were a USA Kilts semi-trad (PV 6+ yards made to measure) and a BK black canvas off-the-rack. I hesitate to call the USAK "budget" as IMHO it's near best-of-class, but I will click something close in appreciation of Alan's category hacking.

(afterthought) OK, my category would be "indiscriminate kilt addict restricted only by financial constraints."

While I waited for those to arrive, I assuaged the jones with a SportKilt & SWK economy (old style). My Sk's and X-kilts are the sweatpants/dungarees of the kilt wardrobe. The acrylic SWK's are mostly worn between the house and grocery store.

I've gotten off-the-rack wool kilts, one hand-sewn, more USAK semi-trad and casuals ...

There's definitely a trend to wool! One box-pleat in progress, and 3 more kilts worth of fabric awaiting. But I like and wear all my kilts.

**Geoff Withnell** · 23rd May 10, 07:03 PM

I voted in the next to last category, but it doesn't really fit. I started with SWK thrifties and Amerikilts. I now wear a mix of box pleat and double box pleated tailored wool, USAK custom casuals and Flamingo contemporaries. So still a mix of contemporary and tartan, but moving up the quality scale. I don't see myself ever giving up the USAK casuals, or Flamingo reverse Kingussie contemporaries. I wear kilts full time except at the office.

Geoff Withnell

**Alan H** · 23rd May 10, 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by Geoff Withnell

I voted in the next to last category, but it doesn't really fit. I started with SWK thrifties and Amerikilts. I now wear a mix of box pleat and double box pleated tailored wool, USAK custom casuals and Flamingo contemporaries. So still a mix of contemporary and tartan, but moving up the quality scale. I don't see myself ever giving up the USAK casuals, or Flamingo reverse Kingussie contemporaries. I wear kilts full time except at the office.

Geoff Withnell

Yeah, with only ten options, we're kind of limited....not that most polls NEED more than ten options.

I am really intrigue'd with how the poll is turning out. Seeing as options 3 and 5 are pretty much the same, I think we can combine them. Right now, roughly equal numbers of X Markers A.) started out with budget tartan kilts and are "moving up"....and B.) started out with first quality wool kilts and continue to purchase at least a few.

Those two possibilities account for over 50 of the currently 75 voters in the poll.

**Carolina Kiltman** · 23rd May 10, 08:39 PM

Being the thrifty (some would say tight wad) Scot, I lurked on this site for quite some time. My first kilt was when I was much younger, all the men in the family got them for my maternal Grandparents 50th wedding anniversary in 1949.

Since I no longer have a 29" waist, my first thought was to replace that one with a less expensive model. However, I finally went for a quality wool one, and now have a second (hunting tartan) one on order. That will probably be the end of my kilt purchases.

Now accessories, jackets, and the like are another matter!

**irishrob** · 25th May 10, 07:06 AM

Over the years I have accumulated quite an eclectic assortment of kilts, some custom made some off the rack and some from X Mark brethren.

Among the lot, 2 Celtic Craft tanks, 2 hand made tanks, a PK camo, a FK camo, 2 UK workmans, 2 tartan SWKs and two "shadow" solids, a semi-trad from Rocky, a Freedom Kilt Xmark and on and on.

So I started out traditional and now wear anything and everything depending on the mood and the occasion.

Rob

**Macman** · 25th May 10, 10:26 AM

My first kilt was a regimental one issued to me, and then I bought my own traditional kilt a couple of years after that. That did me very well for thirty years or so. Then I met Steve Ashton, joined XMTS and my kilt-wearing has expanded to almost every type. I wear different kilts at different times, but find myself in wool mostly.