Tartan tat kings go Scottish

[Alan H]

If people didn't buy them, they wouldn't be in business.

If people in Scotland hated everything about the Gold Brothers and their "form" of the national dress, they wouldn't rent them shop space or sell a building to them. The capacity to end the problem lies with the people in the area where they operate.

[RockyR]

If people didn't buy them, they wouldn't be in business.

If people in Scotland hated everything about the Gold Brothers and their "form" of the national dress, they wouldn't rent them shop space or sell a building to them. The capacity to end the problem lies with the people in the area where they operate.

it lies in the collective people in the area... the problem is that you'll almost ALWAYS have 1 or 2 people who are more interested in profit than the "collective good". That gives companies like the GB a foothold and it's all downhill.

Walmart can't get a foothold in Scotland and the people block them from opening stores when they try to come in. WIsh the sme could be done for the GB, but I fear they've too much power already.

[slohairt]

it lies in the collective people in the area... the problem is that you'll almost ALWAYS have 1 or 2 people who are more interested in profit than the "collective good". That gives companies like the GB a foothold and it's all downhill.

Walmart can't get a foothold in Scotland and the people block them from opening stores when they try to come in. WIsh the sme could be done for the GB, but I fear they've too much power already.

It would be nice, but I'm sure that other merchants (of other unrelated products) feel it is "good" for tourism.

[highlander_Daz]

youll find very few Scots in the gold bros shops, mostly tourists, as far as renting/owning property the gold Bros money spends just as well as anyone elses, and its one thing they have plenty of.

as for Walmart the call them selves ASDA here

[gilmore]

it lies in the collective people in the area... the problem is that you'll almost ALWAYS have 1 or 2 people who are more interested in profit than the "collective good". That gives companies like the GB a foothold and it's all downhill.

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I doubt that's it.

Not only are tourists buying Gold Brothers kilts, but so are what is probably the largest market for kilts among Scots: the Tartan Army. If you go to TA websites and look at the pics of the kilts, you will notice that by far the majority of them are Gold Brothers'. Their synthetic colors stick out like sore thumbs. You see almost no identifiable tanks, which is understandable. Who would want to subject an expensive kilt to the stains and rough housing that happens at football games and related event?

The Gold Brothers, like it or not, are giving Scots something they want: cheap, every day kilts.

[gilmore]

A brief perusal of the internet shows that Glen Isla Kilts did indeed manufacture kilts for the MOD, but little else. They do seem to have a business address in Motherwell, in Braehead Industrial Estate.

Does anyone have first or second hand experience with their kilts? What are they made of? What is the qualitiy of the workmanship?