Tartan tat kings go Scottish

**McClef** · 12th March 08, 04:20 AM

Rocky - over here the word "****" is considered to be racist and derogatory.

I doubt that the reputable shops would start selling them but if they did I would hope that they would have the "baws" to put country of origin on the label.

**Stewart Rendall** · 12th March 08, 04:48 AM

"The maximum someone should be paying for a kilt is £200"

That's an outrageous thing to say. If they'd qualified it with adding 'Polyviscose' fair enough, but as it is, it's an absurd claim.

**RockyR** · 12th March 08, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by McClef

Rocky - over here the word "****" is considered to be racist and derogatory.

I doubt that the reputable shops would start selling them but if they did I would hope that they would have the "baws" to put country of origin on the label.

Sorry about that... no racism was meant. It's simply a term used here to describe where the kilts are made. I'l change the term to Pakistani kilt and write it out from now on....

BTW... thank you for educating me.

**Phil** · 12th March 08, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by RockyR

Sorry about that... no racism was meant. It's simply a term used here to describe where the kilts are made. I'l change the term to Pakistani kilt and write it out from now on....

BTW... thank you for educating me.

Thanks RockyR. It really is a racist slur, certainly here and, in any case, I believe a lot of this stuff actually comes from China. I was apalled by a TV programme here this week detailing the extent of counterfeit goods coming from China nowadays and which is finding its way onto legitimate markets. Things like counterfeit blood pressure drugs are being issued to patients through legitimate channels. That is frightening. Kilts I can live with but vehicle and aeroplane spares! Life saving drugs! That is something else and who encourages it? The cheapskates who won't pay the going price.

**Clockwork John** · 12th March 08, 01:44 PM

When I bought my kilt and sporran and hose from the Gold Bros. They were very honest about the quality, origin, etc. My wife and I actually had a little chat with one of the owners, regarding his plans to visit California. When he was talking to us about their kilts, he used the words cheap, synthetic, and *gasp* made overseas.

It was my experience, as a customer, that they were never attempting to pass off their goods as anything other than what they are- cheap, synthetic, and foreign-made.

**RockyR** · 12th March 08, 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by Phil

Thanks RockyR. It really is a racist slur, certainly here and, in any case, I believe a lot of this stuff actually comes from China. I was apalled by a TV programme here this week detailing the extent of counterfeit goods coming from China nowadays and which is finding its way onto legitimate markets. Things like counterfeit blood pressure drugs are being issued to patients through legitimate channels. That is frightening. Kilts I can live with but vehicle and aeroplane spares! Life saving drugs! That is something else and who encourages it? The cheapskates who won't pay the going price.

Again... I apologize to my ignorance of the racist term. In the spirit of companies like "Ameri"-kilt and "Utili"-kilt, I just shortened the name Pakistani - Kilt. I will refrain from use of the "shortened term".

About the origins of the kilts... As a store owner, I can only speak to my experience. I get roughly 6 or 8 emails a week (not an exaggeration) from Pakistan companies (Salkot Pakistan to be specific) offering low price kilts and bagpipes and other "Scottish" regalia. I have never received an email from a Chinese (or any other country for that matter) company offering low end "Scottish - type goods".

I think many people BELIEVE it's made in China as China is synonimous with "mass production" these days. That may or may not be the actual case, however.

**Monkey@Arms** · 12th March 08, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by RockyR

. I have never received an email from a Chinese (or any other country for that matter) company offering low end "Scottish - type goods".

I think many people BELIEVE it's made in China as China is synonimous with "mass production" these days. That may or may not be the actual case, however.

Back during the Lidl-Gold Brothers prices wars of January '08, a news article stated in regards to the £19.99 kilts at least that "Mr Gold said he could 'guarantee' that the kilts, which are manufactured in China, were good quality and had not been made using child labour."

Best regards,

Jake

**highlander_Daz** · 12th March 08, 03:16 PM

If Mr. "gold" said it was going to go dark tonight Id double check!!

sorry its turning a bit venomous on my part, but I find these guys and others like them to be such a pain, they just see everything as a way to make cash and I find all the stuff they sell so demeaning. I wonder how they would feel if I went to Pakistan and started selling t shirts with
"Im a happy chupatti" or "kiss me im Pakistani" and made the pakistani flag into a bathrobe or silly hat, I know several people from the asian continant and I know how precious they hold the symbols of thier culture, I would never insult someones culture like that a women was Jailed for calling a teddy bear Mohammed in one eastern country, the stuff the golds sell is in my view just as offensive.

apoligies for the religeous references its just to illustrate a point.

**highlander_Daz** · 12th March 08, 03:21 PM

this is the sort of people they are

http://news.scotsman.com/guncrime/Gu...ore.3785381.jp

**BoldHighlander** · 12th March 08, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by highlander_Daz

I would never insult someones culture like that a women was Jailed for calling a teddy bear Mohammed in one eastern country, the stuff the golds sell is in my view just as offensive.

I followed that story quite closely, so let's be clear the woman you mention did not intend to insult anyone, as your remark infers. It just so happened she had the misfortune to be in a culture/society that has little tolerance.

'Nough said, since anything else clearly would be