Cheap, nasty kilts do have their place, 'tis true. However, there are cheap kilts and cheap kilts! Those costing around £90 are probably wearable (indeed we have TONO's word on that), but I suspect the cheap kilts that Paul saw around Edinburgh's Royal Mile were those selling for about £30 and made from about 1½ yards of tartan 'fabric'. Frankly, I wouldn't clean a car with one of those things!

As I have related here before, several years ago I questioned the Manager of a shop near Edinburgh Castle displaying £20 kilts. He freely admitted that they were snatched up in the High Season by American and Japanese tourists who took them home to pin up, trophy-like, on their den walls - he doubted they would ever be worn! When I suggested that they should then be promoted as 'pretend' or 'display' kilts, the Manager leapt to his own defence and told me that if he did that, no-one would buy them. The customers thought they were real kilts!!!