How to buy a kilt - the way it used to be done

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Thank you for posting that. It was an enjoyable watch. Too bad the sound doesn't work. (heh heh, I'm so funny)

Sometimes I reflect on how complex society is, and how an individual person can do so little by themself. Even making a kilt *completely* from scratch would be an enormous undertaking. How do you get wool from sheep if someone hasn't made shearing tools? To clean the wool, you need someone to make the cleaning agent. To dye the wool, you need someone to make the dyes. To weave the threads, you need someone to build a loom. To sew the kilt, you need someone to make the needles. Some of these things I could manage on my own. But all of them? That would take extreme dedication and a massive time commitment.

These days, I get the convenience to buy the materials and tools I need, sew them together, and pretend that makes me a renaissance man. But the truth is, without the contributions of others, we'd all be living quite primitively.