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[OC Richard]

Right, the most expensive items for a startup Pipe Band are the kilts and the drums. (Pipers provide their own pipes, except with some youth bands.)

Established bands which have been wearing the same tartan for many years generally have kilts in a wide range of sizes and can fit everybody. (Bands can wear the same tartan for a half-century or more, due to the tremendous expense of changing.)

Old band kilts have had their buckles moved many times over the decades, and sometimes hemmed for shorter members, and later un-hemmed, and so forth.