Hi Everyone!

Thank you all SO much for your warm and sincere welcome to the "X Marks the Scot" forum. I must say, it's good to be here. Old friends and new friends coming together - this is going to be a wonderful place. However, let us not forget the other splendid meeting places that have served us so well over, in some cases, many years. We should still keep in touch with them and visit regularly.

A quick response to Rick: the kilts with pleats also at the front will be one of the earliest Utilikilts' styles - the Standard model. Rather than a wrap around garment, like the traditional kilt and their current Neo-Trad model, it was a step-in-and-zip-up design. The zip at the front being akin to the fly opening on a pair of trousers. Because there were no overlapping aprons, the symetrical pleating came all around to the front centre line. I liked that style as much as the Neo-Trad but, unfortunately I was in the minority and it was discontinued last year!