Kilt lengths

[RockyR]

Add to that that most of the kilts like the one you are interested in are made in Pakistan. The re-seller must order the kilts, pay for them in full, up front, pay the shipping charges, duty and everything else.
They must have storage space for all of these.

It is just not cost effective. Even at the wholesale cost of between $6.00 and $12.00 each, the re-seller would have many thousands of dollars of stock sitting there on a self.

I got a price sheet in from a Pakistani company yesterday and thumbed through it to see what the competition was up to. After seeing sporrans wholesale at $5 - $16, cap badges at $.80 - $2 and kilts at $10 - $18, no WONDER there's so much Pakistani stuff on Ebay. I was actually pretty deflated to know that companies who re sell Pakistani kilts can triple or quadruple their money EASILY and still be lower priced than anything out of Scotland or the US or Canada and they only resell kilts (don't make them in house).

Confusion can happen because some kilt-sellers use the term "drop" to refer to the total length (I see it on Ebay all the time).

I wish more people understood that, OCR. Drop + Rise = Length. Drop DOES NOT equal length.

I wonder why people use the term drop incorrectly (especially re-sellers) instead of saying "length" which is what they mean. Perhaps b/c "drop" sounds like an industry term so they're trying to sound like they're "in the know"? BTW, this is NOT meant as an insult to anyone who uses the term drop correctly or incorrectly... it's truly an academic query that I'm posing.