First Casual Kilt

[RockyR]

From what I've seen (in person and on their site), the Higgins Value kilt seems to be a cross between our Casual and our Semi Trad. They have the pleat width (1.75" on the one I saw) and depth of our Casual, but the the straps and buckles of our Semi Trad. If their pleats are that wide, then they're likely using 3 to 4 yards or so of cloth per kilt. Our Semi Trad uses roughly 5 to 6.5 yards of cloth and has 1" wide pleats. While it may not matter in this particular case if you're looking for a clan tartan, USA Kilts has a dozen or so tartans that are exclusive to us in PV (American Heritage, Firefighters Memorial, Law Enforcement, Irish American, Ireland's National, Tara, US Service Tartans, etc) that no other company, even ones using MM cloth, carries.

As I have an obvious 'dog in the fight' with this question, I will leave it to others up here to discuss 'more subjective' differences / aspects of the kilts (quality, attention to detail, customer experience, etc).

Just to be clear, this is in no way meant to sound 'negative' towards another company. I'm simply explaining 'quantitative differences' and leaving subjective qualities to others to discuss.