I wouldn't expect to see UK's at teh mall anytime soon, but Hot Topic stores were selling a similar camo kilt for a while.

However to counter some of Riverkilt's posts, I would like to offer the following. I have 8 UK's, and I have never had a problem with any of them other than the Survival. My problem with the Survival model happened before the recall (and in fact I think I was one of the ones that lead to the recall). When I sent an e-mail discussing the failures of the Survival, I had a return call from Uncle Otto that day. I have spoked to them several times since then, and they are always helpful. Additionally, I have never waited longer than 4 weeks for a kilt from them.

Now I'm not saying that Ron hasn't had problems, but based on my experience, I think that he is just having some weird karmic thing going on.

Some of it is a problem with the UK company though. The one thing that makes them a truely great American company is also their biggest hinderance. They have made a corporate decision to organically grow the company (ie. grow the company as demand grows rather than expand production greatly and hope demand catches up), and not to go to foreign sweat shops in order to reduce the price of labor. This does cause some backlog and delays in shipping after ordering (again I've never waited more than 4 weeks, but I know others have). UK is quite possibly the largest kilt company in the world at the moment, and they are always trying to keep up with production.

I actually suspect that some of Ron's problems are probably due to the fact that about the same time that he started ordering, UK had just started using a new sewing co, and maybe their quality controll was not yet up to UK standards. I don't know, and I don't work for UK (for the record) other than I have worked a booth at a Celtic Fair for them (and had a ball doing so).

Finally, everyone charges you before they make a kilt. I just ordered a wonderful kilt from Jeff at Pittsburgh Kilts, and paid at the time I ordered. It took about 4 weeks to arrive as well.

Adam