Why Pakistan?

[Steve Ashton]

Sorry Seanachie, but I have no way of knowing what company you are referring to. It is possible. How do they define Highland wear? Leather work tanned with methods that cannot be used in the west. Perhaps uniforms for Pipe bands. Melton or boiled wool used for tunics?

There is simply no way to confirm or deny any such claim.

If you think about the kilts that are coming out of Sailkot they are definatly not Traditional Style Kilts. If they had been exposed to Traditional Style Kilts what they would be making would be wool and have the hallmarks we know of.

Instead what they produce are very modern kilts. They simple do not know the difference. They copy what they are given.

They really do not know about or understand what we here mean by Highland Wear. To understand how isolated the Pakistani Kilt is from what we know of all you have to do is watch the video's of the annual Pipe Band competitions.

This is the 2011 Sailkot championship pipe band. You see the leader accepting his award near the beginning.


Don't get me wrong the Pakistani Army Pipe Band is pretty good. Good enough to be invited to perform at the Edinburgh Tattoo. But what is coming out of Sailkot today cannot be mistaken for a traditional kilt even by a tourist.