Actually, I find cheap, foreign made, poor quality jeans very comfortable. There's room for high end and for low end in the marketplace. I certainly agree with you, Steve, that you should remain aming the high end. That's what you do and you do it very well. However, I believe that the kilt wearing community can only benefit from the mainstreaming of the garment. Not necessarily because of price (those of us who want custom made kilts are going to pay for them regardless of the rest of the industry) but because of the fact that acceptability of the kilt means the ability for all of us to wear our kilts in any situation without having to start threads with titles like "comments when kilted in public" or "sick of 'the question' every time I go to the pub". Yes, there are those of us that wear our kilts for the comments and looks they garner, or to stand out from the crowd. However, in my opinion, most people want to generally fit in with the rest of societies norms. A widely acceptable kilt would accomplish that.