I bought a nice tweed jacket at the Society Saint Vincent de Paul (Catholic Charity store) for $7.50. It was a Woolrich jacket, really quite nice and in perfectly reasonable shape. It was fully lined.

I looked long and hard at pictures of Crail and Argyle jackets online and inspected a friends Argyll jacket at a Highland Games. Then I sat down with scissors and the Singer straight-stitch machine. I had my wife make some measurements as to length while I had the jacket on, wearing a kilt. I coached her, looking in the mirror.. One long Saturday afternoon later, and a WHOLE lot of pressing with an iron to re-set the lapel crease, and voila....Kilt Jacket for $7.50 and a bunch of labour. That beats $275 for a new one, as far as my pocketbook is concerned.

The key is that the lower pockets HAVE to be patch pockets, stitched on top of the jacket. If the pocket is slit into the material of the jacket I think you'll never make it look right.