Quality Sporrans for less money

[jsrnephdoc]

Interesting that they mention as a positive something that I dislike in their kilts, the super thick leather straps.

As soon as I received my USA Kilts kilt I switched them out for traditional leather straps. Scottish kilt makers have had a couple hundred years to figure out what thickness and suppleness of leather works best.

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It would be really nice to have both a Gaelic Themes kilt and a USA Kilts "Premier" kilt to hand simultaneously to do an in-depth side-by-side comparison.

I assume that both are "traditional kilts" in having a stabiliser and cut-out pleats.

What I'd like to see up close in particular are the stitched portions of the pleats.

I've not checked, but since you HAVE a kilt from USA Kilts, can you not provide at least some responses to your own rhetorical questions? Not intending to be snarky, just curious.

And, I've NEVER seen anyone from USA Kilts try to hide the fact that they machine-stitch their kilts.There is a former Canadian military (Seaforth Highlanders) guy online who's posted probably HUNDREDS of videos of his own kilt-making enterprise who's said some disparaging things about USA Kilts, but those have been disparaged themselves by VERY respected people here.

I have two 8 yard kilts from St. Kilda, both with machine-stitched pleats. The spokesperson for St Kilda with whom I occasionally chat online tells me that the main difference between their own machine-stitched 8 yd kilts and their hand-stitched products is the cost to make the latter, not the quality of the product. I also have a brand new example of Barb Tewksbury's handiwork. Barb advised me to have it pleated to the stripe, and I can recognize that, but as to the nature of the construction itself I'd be useless as a witness, except that NONE of those garments are particularly appreciative of being asked to cloak a shrinking body.

[OC Richard]

since you HAVE a kilt from USA Kilts, can you not provide at least some responses to your own rhetorical questions?

That's the thing, my USA Kilts kilt is their "5 yard semi-traditional" kilt which has a quite different construction to their "premiere 8 yard" kilt.

The kilt I have has top-stitched pleats and the pleats aren't cut out.

Yes if I had a USA Kilts "premiere" I could do a side-by-side with my J Higgins kilt. I think they're more or less the same beast, but without having seen a USA Kilts "premiere" kilt in person I couldn't say.

I've NEVER seen anyone from USA Kilts try to hide the fact that they machine-stitch their kilts.

And to keep the record straight I didn't say that they tried to hide that fact.

All I said was that this quoted paragraph was AI-like and "short on specifics".

A traditional 8 yard kilt, cut from pure wool, deeply pleated to sett and finished with elegant double fringing. A beautiful kilt, crafted to last a lifetime.
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The spokesperson for St Kilda tells me that the main difference between their own machine-stitched 8 yd kilts and their hand-stitched products is the cost to make the latter, not the quality of the product.

They're made using different methods. If according to a person's definition of quality the two methods are equal, then to these people the products are of equal quality. I suppose it comes down to how someone defines "quality".