Here are some pictures of the heavy Murray of Athol kilt I was recently given. There's a faint mark on the lining which looks to me like a WD and broad arrow, indicating a military provenance. It comes from a Glaswegian friend's family, perhaps her grandfather. So perhaps WWI, or the 20s, but no-one knows. It's obvious that someone lowered the straps at some point, and did it very heavy-handedly. I makes me think of the photograph we saw here recently of the soldiers sitting around mending their kilts. Note the buttons on my kilt for braces. As you can guess, the kilt doesn't hang sweetly in the front, and the rise is very high, even for a military kilt. I can wear it, but I'd love to restore it. It may then be too long for me (it's hard for me to figure out exactly how it will fit if I put the straps back where they belong), but then I can pass it on to someone it does fit. The only thing I've done so far is to re-dye and condition the straps. Is it common to have pleats that are so varied in depth? I think you can see on the photo of the pleated bottom edge that of the 33 (?) pleats, most are 3", but two are 4 1/2" and one is 3 3/4", with one vertical seam between the regular ones and the deeper ones. Any comments or observations welcome. Cheers, John