I agree David, the addiction just feeds itself.

Today I bought a camera for my daughter, she really wanted one, but I was in the Camera store with my wife and when the price of $500 was mentioned, my first words were 'I could get a really nice kilt for that'. Shame on me!!

My wife quickly said 'you have enough kilts already'

Regarding tartans david, I think it would be a good idea for kiltmakers to sent out swatches, or some samples of the actual cloth.

For us who order from far off lands - it increase our confidence that what we are buying is what we want.