Ex hire or Pakistan??????

[thecompaqguy]

Germaine to this thread, because the "heritage" name crops up again, is this sporran:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/half-dress-d...kAAOSwoF1ZxMPJ

The seller says it was made in Scotland.

Note that the photo of the reverse doesn't show a stamp that states such.

Rather, the stamp says Heritage Highland Clothing. No mention of place of manufacture.

I do wonder if it's yet another guise of Heritage Of Scotland, the widely-seen seller of Pakistani goods.

Looks like cheap tat. I had one of these sporrans thrown in with a kilt I bought, I think the seller is in Coatbridge, Scotland, but obviously this stuff arrives in crates from overseas. Heritage of Scotland is Gold Brothers / Scotland Kilt Company. There was a Heritage Highland Company selling Kilt Suits (kilt, jacket, waistcoat all of one colour, from beige to navy and everything in between), which went under a year or two ago, perhaps the sporran venture is still going in another guise

[LKM]

I have found good and bad from many nations of origin, including Indonesia, Chine, US, and the UK. From what I have found the places that mass produce anything for low price sales, including clothing, normally cut cost somewhere. This makes it harder to find quality from some companies then others. It looks to me that the cost is often cut in materials or quality control, meaning it is made from a cheep material that will not last as long or it is the same materials as the more expensive and they do not check to make sure it is put together correctly. Even companies that mass produce high numbers of good at very low prices sometimes do produce some items that are better then places that have better reputations. The only issue is that unless you can see it you don't know if you found a rear gem in the stock, the average decent quality, or even a mislabeled uneven mess that will need tailored to fit correctly.

For me, sight unseen with the inexpensive sealers on ebay it is not normally worth it. If I could see what they have and check each jacket it would be worth looking in the inventory to see what I could find.

[kingandrew]

Derosa,

Looking at the two jackets, I would point out a couple of details.

The House of Edgar Argyll jacket has a pronounced "waist," rather than just being a box around the torso.

House of Edgar also has an elegantly curved opening at the bottom of the jacket to accommodate your sporran.

The other jacket is a straight sack from shoulder to the bottom hem.

The cutaway on the second jacket is very low and very slight, leaving the sporran mostly hidden. This is rather awkward if one needs to actually use the sporran. It also prevents others from seeing the sporran you carefully picked out wear with this outfit. It just doesn't look right--like wearing your shirt untucked with a suit jacket or leaving your fly unzipped.

The House of Edgar jacket is a classic Argyll style jacket with the usual elements, such as turn-up cuffs, epaulets on the shoulder, and the distinctive pointed pocket flaps with buttons. I don't know if the other jacket is advertised as an Argyll or is presented as some "modern" style of kilt jacket. But it certainly looks more like a Saxon suit jacket that has been slight altered in an attempt t make it work with a kilt, rather than something designed for that purpose.

There may well be more, but those are the things that jumped out at me.

Andrew