From school onwards, so that's about 60 years now! Today I wear 10 or 12 16-oz Stromes and 3 woven by Kenny Dalgleish (my avatar is one of these). All were hand-made in Scotland, but by different individual kilt-makers. The one in the photo below (taken a month ago) was woven for me over 20 years ago by the late Jamie Scarlett and made by a wonderful kilt-maker in Vancouver now, sadly, retired.

Of course, I can't wear any of the ones I wore when I was younger -- did you know that kilts shrink as you get older? -- but I ca now wear two of my grandfather's. I've no idea who wove or made them, but one is heavier than my Stromes. My brother has been wearing a couple of my dad's heavy kilts for years.

Actually, I only bought my first non-wool a couple of years ago (a UK workmans for the garden). Since then I've bought two standard UKs (to me these are the shorts of the kilt world), one FK and have another on order. Although these are fine for wearing the half-year I spend in Vancouver, I don't wear anything but traditional wool during the other half-year I spend in Scotland.

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