Sometimes these kinds of discussions become an interesting exercise for the brain...

Once upon a time, long ago, in a Galaxy far, far away, one of our ancestors faced a dilemma...trapped on a cliff, with a raging river below and a stalking sabertooth coming at him, he could hide behind a rock, climb a tree, or jump into the river.

The Creator endowed our species with a critical faculty that allows us to make judgments...it was a survival trait. It is counter-intuitive if not downright dangerous to ignore that faculty in a misguided effort to level and homogenize everything down to universal palatability. There is such a thing as "good, better, best"...as evidenced by the choices confronting that ancient forebearer.

And it is natural and evolutionarily profitable for an individual (and by extension the species, as well), to refine that ability so as to make ever more sophisticated judgments and choices.

Even relatively expensive Blended Scotch is not the same as a Single Malt such as Laphroig 15. Unless your sole purpose is some degree of inebriation. They don't taste the same. They don't linger the same and of course they don't cost the same. Life is full of such examples--from cheese to wine to beer to musical instruments to tools.

I am a traditionalist and philosophically probably an elitist if only because I do recognize a hierarchy of excellence--again "good, better, best." But I am not a kilt snob. And if there were a PV that had the same (or similar) hand, weight, swing and ability to hold the pleat as wool, I would certainly buy a PV kilt. They are, after all, washable and I tend to do what needs to be done no matter what I am wearing.

But I suspect that if such an animal existed, eight yard kilts made from this new, revolutionary, true-16-ounce PV would cost just as much as kilts made from wool.