Tweed kilts? What do you think?

[Jock Scot]

I am a huge fan of tweed and spend much of my life clad in it. I do quite like some, not all(the colour shades [brash] are not right), tartans woven in tweed and I saw more examples of that,than I knew existed on a recent trip to Harris and of course they would make a fine kilt. However, I am really not convinced that non tartan tweed in general does make a fine looking kilt. Perhaps, its my tartan kilt or nothing way of thinking at work here, but in my view of things the look of non tartan tweed kilts do not work.

You may be interested to know that non tartan tweed kilts are genuinely a very rare sight in Scotland, yes I know they are made and sold(House of Bruar may still sell them?) here and as far as I can recall, I have only ever seen one non tartan tweed kilt in the wild. A deer stalker, gone now I think, who would wear his heavy(28 ounce I expect) estate tweed, which was made into a three piece kilt suit, in all weathers and at all times. Midges, ticks, rain, blizzards, rocks, bogs, thorns-- the lot, were of no consequence to that hardy kilted man!