Almost all my kilts have been remade, redesigned, refined - some of them four times now.

I can't walk past a fabric shop, I have to go in and look, just in case there is something good on the shelves.

I even stick to my diet because I want my kilts to look as good as possible.

I was really BAD last week - I saw a professionally made kilt made inside out - with the diagonals of the twill weave running the wrong way - it was beautifully made otherwise - but could I keep quite? Ms Diplomacy - NOT!!

Use a low quality fabric for a kilt? No way!! It's got to have swing, it needs gravitas, it needs length, no skimping, it needs time to get every pleat just perfect, the folds precisely on the line of the cloth, each reveal identical, any error corrected and all smooth, pressed, precise, perfect.

But as for selling one?

Oh no. Mine, all mine.

It is going to be some time before I could even think of parting with a kilt.

Those who sell kilts must be very generous souls.