I know I've talked about cheap tweed jackets before. I finally decided that I wanted a tweed in time for Easter, but I have been unwilling to pay the prices that are charged (more in a minute). So, I have been searching E-bay for nearly two months hoping something will show up in my size. After losing several auctions, I gave up and raised the price I was willing to pay. The result, I won a perfect jacket. However, it came on Sat and is just slightly too small (the perils of buying sight unseen), it seems to be a 40R and I need a 42.

So I gave up. I began searching the web to see if anything else could be found. A google link took me to a kiltstore page. Now I'm thinking that they have never had a jacket in anything close to what I thought was a fair price before, how can they now. Instead I find myself looking at a Harris Tweed jacket that is $192. Quickly I log in here and then back tothe kilt store to see what the discount would be. $173 cool (ok not completely cool since I can buy non kilt tweeds for under $125, but still the best I've seen), where is my wallet.

But wait, I finally realize, it's not a kilt jacket just a regular cut tweed jacket. So back to looking at their site. The cheapest tweed kilt jactets are (with the Xmark discount) is $256 for a Crail and $258 for an Argyle (and these are stock sizes not a tailor made.

I'm so mad I can't see straight. There is NO reason that the crail should cost more that a suit cut jacket (really do epaulettes cost $75 to put on).

Somebody please get on the ball and start making a reasonable kilt jacket.

Adam