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31st December 08, 02:50 PM
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31st December 08, 02:56 PM
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Great photos David, one day I'll spring for another kilt from What Price Glory, congratulations on the new kilt.
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31st December 08, 06:28 PM
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GREAT look David !!!!
You INSPIRED me to switch attire. A couple of "kilted" friends are dropping by for a "casual" int: of some very special porter I laid in. ( it is a porter flavored with "Kona Coffee") & I was going to wear my Auld Lang Syne, but now I am wearing WPG "Cameron" complete with my Brit commando Black sweater & WPG hose.
Puffer
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1st January 09, 08:31 AM
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1st January 09, 08:42 AM
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Looking good, David. I am fighting an increasing itch for the WPG Gordon.
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1st January 09, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Mael Coluim
Looking good, David. I am fighting an increasing itch for the WPG Gordon.
Aye, the Gordon is very nice-
Clan Lamont!
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1st January 09, 08:51 AM
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Mael
Go for it the Gordon is a really nice kilt in the winter
And you can even dress it up
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1st January 09, 08:55 AM
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Resistance is futile, right guys!
Don't you just love those WPG kaki hose.
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1st January 09, 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Mael Coluim
Looking good, David. I am fighting an increasing itch for the WPG Gordon.
Why grab for a less than stellar Asian replica of a Gordon Highlanders kilt when the market has large numbers of un-issued or 1st grade army kilts available. These tartans and patterns are, in an Army context, now obsolete. Army kilts have quite a different quality of material (expensive heavy wool spun tartan with a special sheen and feel that only Robert Noble could deliver), quite a different standard of workmanship (hand made by some of the finest kiltmakers in Scotland including Thomas Gordon & Sons of Glasgow) and more accurate pattern (literally the "real thing"). Unless one is of a size not available in military stocks (they did not go much beyond 38" waist or 28" in length) and one does not want to have one made up (the tartans are getting increasingly difficult to source as they were amalgamated nearly 15 years ago) I see no reason for anyone to purchase one as long as these surplus kilts are flowing into the market.
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1st January 09, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Nanook
Why grab for a less than stellar Asian replica of a Gordon Highlanders kilt when the market has large numbers of un-issued or 1st grade army kilts available. These tartans and patterns are, in an Army context, now obsolete. Army kilts have quite a different quality of material (expensive heavy wool spun tartan with a special sheen and feel that only Robert Noble could deliver), quite a different standard of workmanship (hand made by some of the finest kiltmakers in Scotland including Thomas Gordon & Sons of Glasgow) and more accurate pattern (literally the "real thing"). Unless one is of a size not available in military stocks (they did not go much beyond 38" waist or 28" in length) and one does not want to have one made up (the tartans are getting increasingly difficult to source as they were amalgamated nearly 15 years ago) I see no reason for anyone to purchase one as long as these surplus kilts are flowing into the market.
Nanook interesting point. Do you have any websites where the original issue could be obtained? I have only know of happy customers of the WPG's wares from the east. I am one too! But to have an original army issue would be a fine posession.
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