What Would Happen If.....

[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.

[Blu (Ontario)]

It's doubtful that a few inquiries from a few eccentric kilt wearing men would influence Wal*Marts marketing plans. Stores will stock and sell them when there is a demand for them... in 40 years or so. Fun specuating though.

(On the positive side of Wal*Mart... it has provided both my kids with part time jobs... that taught them responsibility and helped put them through school.)

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[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.

[MacWage]

Most men are not going to fork out $100 for a piece of clothing.

At least one they "won't wear that often." Yet, for that $150 NFL replica jersey that is worn a few hours 16 times a year, it is money well spent.
PANSIES!!!!!!!!!!

It's all in the head!

Trust me, I'll be wearing my Wallace kilt with my Atlanta Falcons jersey this season.

Now to make one matching Green Bay and one for the Carolina Panthers. I wonder what tartans would: 1. match and 2. be "appropriate" :rolleyes:

[KiltedKnight]

I don't understand this idea about mainstreaming kilts, I mean I understand why kilt makers would want to have a two year backlog of orders but why would I want all the sheeple wearing kilts, driving up the prices and then a year down the line it would be last years fad and they'd look at me in my Scottish handmade wool kilt that I've worn since before they were born and tell me that it was out of style.

No, mainstreaming kilts would be the death of them and I'm against it. Once the sheeple get into something it's just a fad. I'd much rather do my own thing and if there is another individual who decides to wear a kilt then fine but again, not the sheeple. Most of you don't remember the "Urban Cowboy" fad, overnight the sheeple switched from "Saturday Night Fever" to cowboy hats with feather hatbands and then some other fad came along and you looked ridiculous if you wore a 40x Stetson.

I want to be the only man in a nice restaurant in a kilt with my wife, I want to stand out from the crowd of sheeple. I want to remain an individual.

Chris.

[Kilted KT]

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).

I resemble that remark!!!

for the vast army of kilt-wearing IT guys out there...we need to have another William Wallace-style rebellion, and get the massive corporations to allow kilts at work..

it's not like the companies are going to bring their customers in to see the vast wasteland of the cubefarm in which most of us live!

( oh, I'm not much on walmart either...screws the little guy)