Quote Originally Posted by Colin
Quote Originally Posted by Alan H
Bear says he turns out one kilt a day. OK, his four-yard kilts cost about $150 USA. If there's $50 of materials int here, then he's building s machine-stitched kilt for around $100. I could be ten or twenty bucks off in my estimates here, sure.... but not a hundred dollars off, eh?
Just a bit of a correction there Alan. Bear's 4 yard kilts are $150 Canadian not American. I think Bear and Rocky will both let you know that the cost of the material for a 4 yard is more than $50. That may be the case with material from local sources, but both of those companies are importing the PV fabric from England (duty added to the cost), so I highly doubt they are making $60-$100 in labour for each 4 yard kilt.
The $100 is just a very, very general guesstimate. It's not $25 and it's not $175, USA greenbacks. It's probably rather less than $100, though for their sake I hope it's not.