Quote Originally Posted by RockyR View Post
I got a price sheet in from a Pakistani company yesterday and thumbed through it to see what the competition was up to. After seeing sporrans wholesale at $5 - $16, cap badges at $.80 - $2 and kilts at $10 - $18, no WONDER there's so much Pakistani stuff on Ebay. I was actually pretty deflated to know that companies who re sell Pakistani kilts can triple or quadruple their money EASILY and still be lower priced than anything out of Scotland or the US or Canada and they only resell kilts (don't make them in house).




I wish more people understood that, OCR. Drop + Rise = Length. Drop DOES NOT equal length.

I wonder why people use the term drop incorrectly (especially re-sellers) instead of saying "length" which is what they mean. Perhaps b/c "drop" sounds like an industry term so they're trying to sound like they're "in the know"? BTW, this is NOT meant as an insult to anyone who uses the term drop correctly or incorrectly... it's truly an academic query that I'm posing.

Well from my point of view there's just no way I can justify paying over 200 dollars for a clothing item of ANYTHING I'd wear out in public. I do too many physical things throughout my day to be able to justify wearing something that expensive.

I went into a local Celtic shop to have a look, and was in the market for a day-Sporran. The cheapest one they had was $95! I just don't think it justifiable OR "manly" for me to wear that out of the house and be so overprotective of my investment I'm going to worry about scuffs, scrapes, or stains. It's like the Male version of throwing a fit over scuffing my brand new MK purse.

I do completely understand the cost for "dress wear" and "dress kilts" but, being someone who is totally open to wearing kilts in public on a daily basis this cost is just too high for me to justify attempting to build any sort of respectable wardrobe; which may be a reason why those Pakistani-made kilts are so popular, not to mention that Wool in Texas is not something I find comfortable.

I noticed on USAKilts that you don't sell any version of "day" or Utility kilt? I apologize if I didn't look in the right place. Those are what a person like me is in the market for. However I fully accept that I may not be your desired market.

For me, wearing a Tartan kilt out in public 4-5 days a week gets looks, compliments, comments etc. But Utility kilts get that "oh, that guy has a purpose for wearing that; he really uses those things/I didn't know kilts could do that!"