Well, I've always wanted a kilt but never could afford one because the real deals are just too darn expensive. I finally decided to just go ahead and make a semi-trad kilt. I started doing research online and found affordable and comfort kilts. I'm still going to make an 8 yard trad with some material I have, and a 5 yard comfort with some material I just bought last night, but I am also waiting on my first kilt, an SWK Mackenzie Thrifty. It was affordable, a good intro to kilts, and I have a Mackenzie line in my ancestry. I also have a few other Scottish lines, a few Irish lines, and a couple Welsh, so I am also getting into wearing kilts as a way to celebrate my Celtic ancestry. I would love to eventually own an Irish National and Irish Saffron kilt as well. I am 30 and still pretty young all considering so I certainly plan on having a wide array of kilts and wearing them until the day I go to my ancestors.

~LH~

~Shawn