Traditional 8 yard kilt or 5 yard kilt

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Let's just say that you are going to come into enough material in US Bicentennial to make an 8 yard kilt, and a skirt for your wife. You are mostly German, Dutch, with a little Irish and Scottish, but very far down the road. You don't have a clan that you associate with, and at this point you don't wear clan kilts. Currently you own, three USA Kilt Casual's, two SWK's, with a 5 yard Xmarks kilt on the way. You live in PA where the climate is pretty warm most of the time. You also wear kilts everyday, not to work (yet), but everyday none the less. Would you have a Traditional 8 yard made, or would you go with a 5 yarder and some accessories?

Traditional 8 yard kilt Pro's
It's a Traditional 8 yard kilt
Unless we get our own tartan this will be my tartan
The formal of all formal kilts
Will be heavy for Buffalo winters (where my family is)

Traditional 8 yardCon's (these are more of questions than statements)
Going to be heavy for:
summer things
Indoor events in the winter (they crank up the heat)
Will be a Traditional 8 yard kilt so I won't snow blow or anything in it (Probably true of any wool kilt though)
I wear kilts every day, so having seven and one I think will be too heavy for summer concerns me.

So what do you all think...