The parcel from Kinloch Anderson containing my kilt suit and accessories arrived today. DHL dropped it off with nary a tax assessed (!). The other package containing my formal outfit purportedly shipped today from Nicholson Highland Wear and should be here late next week. Hopefully, it will also pass easily through the gates and be delivered without a whimper from Customs.

As for the kilt, it is my first traditional kilt, and it is quite handsome! I am waiting for my wife to come home before I take out the basting that confines the pleats so we can first see it in its full blown glory together. besides, what good would a twirl be with no audience?!

Speaking of the wife, she has a waistcoat and shawl in the box and I am looking forward to seeing her reaction. I couldn't talk her into a kilted skirt or woman's coatee.

Mychael