These are my first kilts. I've made my own clothes in the past as well as worked in materials fabrication, so I can retrofit just about anything to anything, but still can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

DNKE Highlander from Amazon-Next time I get a utility kilt, it will be in olive or darker brown. Khaki twill picks up a weird gray coating out hear in the highland desert of the San Luis Valley. I have a 33.5 inch true waist, I ordered small/regular, which is slightly too big even after boiling the cotton material to shrink it. I cross button the top buttons to reduce the waist size, but it stills falls to my hips like my pants, so I'm taking off about 1 3/4" from the drop (which I think is 26") so that, blasphemy though I commit, the kilt will wear at mid knee when I wear the kilt at my hips. As it is now, it looks like a drunken punker's dream. I will also sew in some velcro in the waist and under-front of right apron and probably sew down some of the front pleats as they tend to fan out. I don't wear the detachable pockets, I got ahold of a real cool buckskin and fox faced (yes, a real fox's face) "possibles" bag on Ebay, which I think I'll continue to wear over my shoulder. The possibles bag will go great should I show up to one of the rendezvous out about this way, and due to the fully cotton nature of this kilt, I might be able to historically justify wearing it.

Overall, a great utility kilt, thick twill good for work (not canvas like Carhartt), and great for our ravens, Heckyll and Inky, to roost on my legs while I'm sitting without piercing my skin, the material is that thick and tightly woven.

I live in the high desert, lots of sun exposure, hot in the day (80-90F) and cool at night (40-50F), dry as a bone. This kilt, olive green as it is, keeps me cool in day and warm at night, the 100% cotton twill is very effective.

I wash it on regular cycle and then air dry, pulling the pleats proper, and it dries in shape, just a little wrinkly, which I don't care cause I'm retired.

I'll be wearing this among the cactus, dust, rock, rattlers, goatshead thorns (and I'm barefoot), wild horses and coyotes. A great non-snagging rough-em-up kilt that I would not hesitate to put patches on in the far future.

SW MacLaren Thrifty Kilt-Acrylic, which stays a little warm here in the high desert in the summer and I won't even think to let the Ravens sit on. A great look and fit that will accommodate any waist size changes handily. The only thing I did was to sew one more line about an inch down on the fell and that really helped the hinder shape. I didn't read the instructions and pulled the second from the top basting stitch out so had to pin the pleats. Would've saved myself much time, but when have I ever read instructions?

Great casual kilt and a great look. This is a wear-around kilt I'll be wearing in the house and around town an hour away, as well as my bluegrass concerts. I live in what I've downgraded to as a settlement (only 12 people left in town), but I won't be wearing it out to a barbecue on the Rio Grande for fear of catching it on a cholla cactus or a mountain lion's front claw.

Via con Dios from the San Luis Valley, home of cattle mutilations, conquistadors, and two-legged coyote.