Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
About cost, my usual tendency is to dismiss the concerns of people who buy Pakistani jackets because they say they can't afford UK made ones, or say they can't afford UK made sporrans, etc.

It's the very reason I started the thread about buying high-quality Scottish-made sporrans for less than the Pakistani ones cost.

I currently have three UK-made Argyll jackets. One I ponied up the money to purchase new because it was in a tweed I wanted that Marton Mills recently introduced.

But my charcoal grey UK-made Argyll and my Lovat Green UK-made Argyll were purchased for 75 pounds and 35 dollars respectively (firstly from a Kilt Hire shop in Ayrshire, due to the customer never picking up his bespoke jacket, and secondly an Ebay find).

But it's different with tartan! Because remote is the likelihood of a kilt fitting your measurements and being in a tartan you want.

So with accessories I pick up bargains, but with kilts and the fabric they're made from I pay the going rate because there's no alternative.

I'm not going to wear an acrylic or polyester kilt, I'm not going to wear a "casual kilt", so I gladly pay the price for real kilting cloth and a real kilt.

Unfortunately not everyone has the luck to find jackets it their size, especially if it involves going to a hire shop in Scotland. I’ve never owned or worn an acrylic or polyester kilt. Or one not made for my measurements. I do have pv kilts made to my measurements made by the same Marton Mills as your jacket. They seem real enough to me. I agree it’s worth paying for quality, but not everyone has the luxury of buying a 8 yard wool kilt. Most people in the USA anyway can’t afford to save for the future let alone kilts. That said, in my perfect world, all kilts are made in UK wool, hand sown and made to measure.