What Would Happen If.....

[Colin]

Do they have a MacWalmart tartan?
Not a fan of the idea personally. I just can't see how you can support the little guys in one community and than try and get Walmart to bring in kilts, basically driving business from the smaller guys in another community. Secondly asking walmart if they sell kilts when you are in a kilt will not change their mind. You are just a niche market in their minds at that point. If you were in jeans and asked for them, you are looking for a "new" product that you don't already have. Retailers love bringing you new stuff that you don't really "need".

[Mattg]

I wouldn't buy 'em. Maybe if they came from a better quality store. Smaller stores, or younger stores like American Eagle that would attract a younger crowd. Stores like that tend to be more expensive, but they do provide better quality products.

[Richland]

Those who are regulars at wall mart art not kilted types on the average. unfortunately you would need to target a slightly more upscale fashon type place. Mall, fashon, trendy, but then, fashon and trendy are cyclic. kilts would be totaly kool for a year or two and then be a Fad, a "has been". I would prefer kilts being, (and Staying) on the frindge of fashon, and reserved for those ( like us)who Dare to be a little different, and march to a different drimmer (Or piper)
Just my opinion

[RockyR]

What do I think would REALLY happen if Walmart did carry kilts?

First: Price. It would have to retail at like $40 or under. Basically, it would be a mass produced skirt with a kilt "tag" on it.

Second: It would probably only come in 1 length (probably 24) and probably only be available in Blackwatch and Royal Stewart. The market would be flooded with cheerleader skirts being passed off as kilts.

3rd: it would force smaller Kilt companies to cut their own financial throats to try to keep prices down to compete. Expensive wool kilt companies would suffer, but still make money as "real" kilts would be much better quality and are going after a higher end market than walmart customers.

4th: smaller kilt companies (including custom kilt companies) would suffer financially to try to bring the cost down that they'd eventually fold to make "real money" elsewhere (an IT job for example).

5th: big Kilt fad would end in 2 years and there'd be few companies left making a "decent" product at a "decent price" (about $100).

6th: a few years would pass and a coulple kilt companies will pop up here and there and eventually get us back to where we are right now.

I have a pretty negative view of Walmart in case you can't tell... hahaha

[Riverkilt]

Aye...

Last fall bought a black Stewart tartan "dress" shirt from WalMart...because it was a tartan shirt to wear with a solid kilt. Was so thin I was embarrassed to wear it other than for knocking around. When it washed the fabric thread and the seam threads seemed to have different ideas about what to do. I eventually gave it to our local Detox facility to pass on to a drunk in need.

It was inexpensive....

Point of the post was to mess with WalMart's mind more than anything. Maybe its my happy imagination that somehow I'm having an effect on the beast by shopping kilted and asking their staff where the kilts are?

Ron

[RockyR]

Last fall bought a black Stewart tartan "dress" shirt from WalMart... When it washed the fabric thread and the seam threads seemed to have different ideas about what to do.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Retro Red]

4th: smaller kilt companies (including custom kilt companies) would suffer financially to try to bring the cost down that they'd eventually fold to make "real money" elsewhere (an IT job for example).

So, Rocky, are you going to learn Hindi so you can get the IT job that's been shipped off to India? :rolleyes:

For me, it's a non-issue if MalWart carried kilts or not because I avoid shopping there as a matter of principle.

I agree with Rocky that if MalWart ever got into kilts it'd be yet one more thing that their Midas-in-reverse touch would spoil.

It's an understandable desire, Ron, to want to mess with the monster's mind, but I say - Boycott MalWart!!!

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[Frank McGrath]

Then I guess we aren't going to wal mart and ask for kilts?

[Mr. Kilt]

I wouldn't buy anything from WalMart. I won't even grace their stores with my presence. I'm glad there's others who feel the same way.

[Raphael]

If somehow kilts are going to make it in the main stream market, It had to start from the high fashion retail outlet, not from the bottom, like Walmart. Then it will trickle down to more affordable prices.

Right now, you can have a trailer full of kilts for passing to all the men that walked by and it still will not make kilt popular.

We need a create a reason to wear the Kilt. Freedom and Heritage cannot be the reasons. Guys need to feel sexy and MASCULINE in them. Most of all they need to be Affordable.

When Utilikilts came to Vancouver last October, a few guys like them and how they feel after they tried them out at the bar. As soon as they found out the price, they lost complete interest. Most men are not going to fork out $100 for a piece of clothing.