Quote Originally Posted by RockyR View Post
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.