This is the kilt that.....

**Freelander Sporrano** · 28th July 04, 02:45 PM

I love the kilt but I like the flag better. Yes it is a work of art.......X marks the me bum no thanks....

**phil h** · 28th July 04, 03:52 PM

Originally Posted by episcopalscot

Okay, the more I look at Blu's photo, the more the Saltire kilt is growing on me...

T.

you will buy a saltire kilt

you are getting very sleeeepy

**Blu (Ontario)** · 28th July 04, 08:38 PM

For those that might be tempted, you'd better have deep pockets. The retail price for this kilt is $750.oo Cdn which would roughly translate to $560.oo US. or 310 GBP or $810.oo Aus. or 63,000 JPYen. The price is slightly less if they have your size in stock. They are manufactured only in Scotland. This is not a lightweight novelty garment. It is 13oz worsted made with rise in the proper traditional way.

blu

Oh no.... There's a full moon tonight...!
Ahhoooooooooooooooo.....

**Freelander Sporrano** · 29th July 04, 12:51 AM

Blu wrote:
Oh no.... There's a full moon tonight...!
Ahhoooooooooooooooo

I used to be a werewolf but I'm better NooooooW!!!!

Oh fiddle sticks...

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**Hamish** · 29th July 04, 02:03 AM

Originally Posted by Blu (Ontario)

For those that might be tempted, you'd better have deep pockets. The retail price for this kilt is $750.oo Cdn which would roughly translate to $560.oo US. or 310 GBP or $810.oo Aus. or 63,000 JPYen. The price is slightly less if they have your size in stock. They are manufactured only in Scotland. This is not a lightweight novelty garment. It is 13oz worsted made with rise in the proper traditional way.

blu

Oh no.... There's a full moon tonight...!
Ahhoooooooooooooooo.....

The actual price, here in the United Kingdom, direct from the only kiltmaker licensed to tailor them is £365 or, as the designer told me, one pound a day for the first year and every day free thereafter!

The 'clever' thing about the Saltire cross itself is that it features only on the outside surface of each pleat - not on the inner (or reverse) surface. If woven right across the length of wool the cross would, when pleated, have a jagged edge - but it doesn't. Draw a cross on a piece of paper and pleat it, then you'll see what I mean. When those kilt pleats swing, there are wonderful flashes of blue breaking into the white of the cross, creating a marvellous visual effect.

I want one SO much but I have not paid so dearly for a kilt since I bought (and imported!!) my solid leather Utilikilt. Maybe, if I take the kiltmaker's logical viewpoint however............................ 8) 8)

**Mychael Sporrano** · 29th July 04, 03:08 AM

Originally Posted by Blu (Ontario)

It is 13oz worsted made with rise in the proper traditional way.

Also worth noting, its wool is of the teflon coated variety.

$560 US doesn't seem outrageous at all for a traditional style kilt made in the UK, at least not when compared to the prices which I have been paying. My 8 yard 13 oz kilt from Kinloch Anderson cost only a few dollars less than that amount, and a comparable kilt from TFCK costs roughly $130 more. I have another 16 oz. kilt that cost me $500.

I have on order a 6 yard TFCK in their AR1 16 oz. plain black wool that costs $550. It was a toss up between ordering the Saltire and the TFCK casual, but I figured the TFCK would ultimately prove more versatile since it could be dressed up as well as down while the Saltire is more gimmicky, albeit admittedly exceptional. Still, I am sorely tempted... As Hamish wrote, that is only one pound UK per day for a one year period of tioe, and free thereafter. Good way of looking at it <g>!

If one could get the notion, hop on a bus and head downtown to pick up a kilt, it wouldn't be so bad. But once you decide to get a decent kilt you know that there is a lengthy wait involved. I don't know about you all, but that makes me want to always have one in the pipeline! In the case of the TFCK, I won't be seeing mine until mid October. The wait for the Saltire is only slightly less unless one in your size is in stock.

Mychael

**Jimmy Carbomb** · 29th July 04, 07:25 AM

I was gonna say... that's NOT that much for a quality-sewn kilt like that! You can pretty much guarantee that you won't see another in your crowd (atleast in the US).

The Irish National Tartan 8-yard, 16 oz., hand-sewn that I have took a whole 5 weeks to arrive from Edinburgh, and cost about the same. Sounds fair to me!