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9th February 08, 12:44 PM
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I really wonder where these names come from. Crail is a small fishing village on the Fife coast and you are about as likely to see someone in a kilt there as fly in the air. Most probably an Edinburgh kiltmaker had a weekend cottage there and thought it would be a nice name. Argyll is a more likely place to come across a kilt-wearer but the only people I've ever seen wearing kilts in Braemar are the Royals when they go native on their holidays there and the proprietor of the kilt shop, no-one else. At one time if you wanted a jacket you went to the local tailor and what you got depended on what he knew how to make. A browse through Armstrong's second-hand rails in Edinburgh turns up all kinds of different styles of old jackets, no doubt reflecting the place they were made. Nowadays virtually everything you get is mostly dictated by the rental trade and is mass produced, one size fits all. That is why outlets such as Matt's carry a fairly limited range because that is pretty much all that is available from what is, essentially, a ready to wear market.
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