I've bought two of the cheapo kilts specifically for wearing in the workshop and so on - they're quite adequate for that, and in fact I wear them out and about as well. Some friends had a ceilidh tonight which I went to wearing one of them. They save the wear-and-tear on the (really) expensive kilt. I assume that they're made somewhere other than Scotland (perhaps Galashiels has moved?); but the label says (quite amusingly actually) "designed in Scotland" - well it would be, wouldn't it? Like Ranald, I've not much of a problem with them being made elsewhere as long as they say so.