Ya Gotta Love Quality

[Riverkilt]

Friday I wore my Dress Blue Marine tartan kilt to work. Sat in it for at least 9 hours with meetings and trainings and at my desk. When I got home I fired up the steamer to steam out the pleats....but when I looked at the pleats they didn't need steaming. No wrinkles, no creases, nothing. Looked the same as when I put it on in the morning. THAT is quality!

Steve Ashton had the material woven at Martin Mills, their 16 ounce Jura. Kathy Lare sewed the pleats.

Just remarkable what good weaving and good sewing can do together.

[tulloch]

Great testimonial. Thanks.

[David]

Stopped wearing my kilt about 10 years ago - it shrank suddenly one night. I got it cleaned and squeezed into it once or possibly twice more, then packed it away till I lost some weight . In the intervening years it was treated badly, rolled up then folded, kicked about in a bag, crushed into a case and left there for a year or so after moving house. Left lying about some more. Then just before Christmas I decided that I lacked the motivation to lose weight, and needing a kilt for a night out I splashed out £85 to get the kilt let out a wee bit. I took it out of the vacuum pack storage bag it had been in, gave it a shake, hung it up over night an hey presto, not a wrinkle, crease or open pleat in it. Lochcarron Strome, ye canny whack it. Oh and another reason to get a hand made kilt that does not skimp on the yardage, there is plenty of capacity to deal with the shrinkage that can occur when they are not worn, about 6" to 7" in my case