The only kilt I ever bought was to be used as a pattern - but it was more in the way of a dreadful warning.

It was of course an eBay special, man made fabric black watch sort of tartan. It was made of several pieces of flawed material joined together, had signs of previously being pleated differently, had been pressed with an iron set too hot so it was polished in a couple of places, was made with a piece of rigid reinforcement, some sort of plastic foam I think, behind the pleats so there was no posibility of shaping - the waist and hip measurements are the same.

The buckles and straps were not worth the bother of removing them to reuse, nor the material of sufficient quality to be reclaimed.