Kilt lengths

[Steve Ashton]

Can you imagine how many kilts a re-seller would have to have in stock?

Let's say, just for argument, that the re-seller offers 4 Tartans. If they then offer kilts in 2" increments of waist size from 28" up to 54" that would be 56 different kilts.

Now, for the sake of the same argument lets say that they also stock kilts in 1" length increments. Let's say from 20" to 26". They would now be up to 224 different kilts, in different sizes, and different Tartans.

And 90% of these would just sit on a shelf in the hope of someone ordering one in that exact size and that exact Tartan.

In fact it would take quite a few more than 224 kilts in stock to be able to maintain a business. The common sizes would need 10 or 20 each. And some re-sellers carry quite a few more than 10 or 20 simply because they do not make the kilts. They order them from a maker and the average time for product to arrive could be as much as a month or more.

Add to that that most of the kilts like the one you are interested in are made in Pakistan. The re-seller must order the kilts, pay for them in full, up front, pay the shipping charges, duty and everything else.
They must have storage space for all of these.

It is just not cost effective. Even at the wholesale cost of between $6.00 and $12.00 each, the re-seller would have many thousands of dollars of stock sitting there on a self.