[QUOTE=OC Richard;1410396]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.
That still happens today in a few shops. There are two that I know of within this County that will still make a kilt for a customer, -------at a price! I am pretty sure that my two kilts(same tartan, different sett size) will see me out. Phew!
Last edited by Jock Scot; 21st February 25 at 03:50 AM.
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