Buying a kilt in 1955:
Go into your local Highland Dress shop, get measured, choose tartan from swatch-book from a Scottish weaver.
When the fabric arrives at the shop a local kiltmaker sews it entirely by hand to your measurements.
Buying a kilt in 2025:
Go online to some site you know nothing about and order an "acrylic wool" kilt.
It's mass-produced in batches of hundreds, machine-sewn in a Sialkot factory to generic sizes.
(Sad, but the latter method is in the majority these days, and it isn't close.)
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks