Unless you're planning to wear the kilt daily, you really only need one or two well-made kilts. If there is a tartan associated with your family I'd recommend that you save up your money and buy a hand-stitched, heavy-weight wool kilt in your "clan" tartan. If your "clan" has more than one tartan (hunting, dress, old), then you might want two kilts, one in the regular clan tartan, one in the hunting tartan, etc. If your clan only has one tartan then you might want a kilt in the modern color scheme for evening or formal events and a kilt in the ancient or weathered color scheme for day wear.

If you're trying to pinch pennies then try contacting the clan association and see if anyone is trying to sell a used kilt in your clan tartan, often many kilts get "recycled" to a good home in this way. If that isn't an option then consider a four-yard box-pleated kilt or a 5 or 6 yard knife-pleated kilt, which would still be high quality and hand-sewn wool but a little less expensive.


Buy what you really want...Buy a quality item...you'll only need to Buy once...

Best of luck.

David