I first started with an inexpensive acrylic kilt in black watch. Liked it enough to want more. Bought fabric. Made kilt like garments based on a bad pattern (the acrylic one). Made more playing with it however I thought it should be. Then I found this place.

I work in the blacksmith shop in kilts that I made myself, every day unless it is so cold as to be impossible. When I go to town I wear tartan wool, mostly Matt Newsome four yard box pleats, but I do now have two tanks as well. The tartan is much more recognized as a kilt in central Iowa by most folks. Solid color contemporary stuff, less so and more likely to generate "skirt" comments. I play paintball kilted in one of Robert's fine "Mach 5" hemp kilts (RKilts). I do now need to make new shop kilts, as the first batch is wearing out (cheap fabric). At least one of the new ones is likely to be camo.

I steer people here as well, this place could have saved me a lot of trouble had I found it sooner, and helped answer my many questions once I did.

But for me, whilst out and about I am in a wool tartan kilt, and more or less a "traditionalist" at this point.