A Lesson Learned

[Panache]

$120 for two PV kilts that fit you doesn't sound at all like a bad value.

Now save your pennies and get a nicer wool one in the tartan of your choice when you can afford it.

I still have my first "real kilts" a wool Stillwater Heavyweight in all black and a Mcleod of Harris standard (acrylic). I still wear both. The solid black one to Scottish country dances and other "nice" events and get compliments and I will be wearing my trusty Mcleod to go camping in this weekend.

Enjoy these two, play around with getting the accessories you like/need and save those pennies for the bespoke one of your dreams.


Cheers

Jamie

[adempsey10]

$120 for two PV kilts that fit you doesn't sound at all like a bad value.

Now save your pennies and get a nicer wool one in the tartan of your choice when you can afford it.

I still have my first "real kilts" a wool Stillwater Heavyweight in all black and a Mcleod of Harris standard (acrylic). I still wear both. The solid black one to Scottish country dances and other "nice" events and get compliments and I will be wearing my trusty Mcleod to go camping in this weekend.

Enjoy these two, play around with getting the accessories you like/need and save those pennies for the bespoke one of your dreams.


Cheers

Jamie

$120 per kilt!

[CMcG]

One might take a different lesson from this, which is, "there is more than one way to skin a cat." Those HoS PV kilts are also on eBay for about $75, which is $10 more than their website, but includes free shipping. That way one avoids having to make a larger order to get free shipping, which makes it easier to avoid brokerage and taxes. As for alterations, either find a willing helper (my girlfriend and mother have both hemmed kilts for me) or learn to do it yourself, which is something many Xmarkers have discovered is not as difficult as it appears.

This way, one's $75 kilt stays at $75, rather than ballooning into a $120 kilt.