or is that my favorite new kilt...

Hmmmh, OK both refer to the same thing (for those literature buffs, can you place the reference (sci-fi)?)...

Anyway, got my UK mocker in heather grey yesterday and wore it to work al day today. I am psyched! This my first UK and I must say I am impressed. The finish and cloth weight is much better than my AK. Not a dig on AK's, but I have commented before on being surprised that they just use an overlock stitch instead of turning the hem under and stitching it up, which is what UK does. The addition of slash pokets, with the 2 rear pockets is also awesome.

Got more good comments and acceptance on this kilt than any other I have worn, including from a co-worker who is of Irish descent, and married to an English gentleman. She regularly visits, or is visited by people from, the UK. She was not a huge fan of the AK, but did like the UK mocker.

One interesting thing for me, since I am making my own kilt, was the fact that the UK mocker pleats from both sides. On a traditional kilt, and based on Barb's book, the pleats start on the left side of the kilt over apron with a deep pleat, and then continue around the back of the kilt, with all pleats folded the same way, and a deep box pleat on the right side before the under apron. The UK, at least the mocker, pleats from the left side of the over apron, and from the right side of the under apron, and then has a box pleat in the back center. Works as well as the traditional, and actually brings the pleats onto the front of the kilt on this design as the apron is fairly narrow. Here is a picture, but it is actually somewhat darker, close to a charcoal gray: