Scotland Forever's Adventures in Kilt Buying (Advice Wanted)

**Jock Scot** · 18th February 10, 05:08 AM

Have you tried "Chisholms of Inverness"? Another bespoke kilt maker of the highest repute.

**Paul** · 18th February 10, 05:20 AM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

Have you tried "Chisholms of Inverness"? Another bespoke kilt maker of the highest repute.

Jock, I popped into Chisholms when I was in Inverness and the kilts seemed great, though as far as I can remember their kilts are around £500. This seems a little over-priced to me, especially since fully hand-stiched kilts are available from military and ex-military kilmakers for around 3/5 of this.
Also - all the stock accessories were more expensive than elsewhere.

**Jock Scot** · 18th February 10, 07:22 AM

Originally Posted by Paul.

Jock, I popped into Chisholms when I was in Inverness and the kilts seemed great, though as far as I can remember their kilts are around £500. This seems a little over-priced to me, especially since fully hand-stiched kilts are available from military and ex-military kilmakers for around 3/5 of this.
Also - all the stock accessories were more expensive than elsewhere.

This is interesting and I would welcome your observations , as I think you are in the" business" so to speak. Now, I know it is bad form to "knock" your competitors, so can you answer me this? Are you comparing the prices like for like, for example a sporran made by A and sold at Chisholms for X; is that same sporran made by A for sale for Z elsewhere ? Particularly with the accessories. I am not planning a trade war here and I fully understand that prices differ for a variety of reasons, but I would be interested nonetheless.

**Zardoz** · 18th February 10, 10:44 AM

I'm not gonna get into the kiltmaker discussion, other than to say I think you can get a good quality kilt from various vendors without paying more than 500 bucks.

But I will advise against the cream hose! You said yourself there's a lot of black in the outfit, but I think the cream hose would just really stick out rather than balance the look. If it was me, I'd look at 3 options;

Wear Black or Charcoal Hose and red flashes. (More black!)

Get some tartan or diced hose to match the kilt. (red and black diced are readily avalible)

Wear your Hunting Stuart kilt with Black or Charcoal Hose and red or green flashes. (don't wanna talk you out of a new kilt, but this has more 'balance' IMO )

Just my 2 cents, Good Luck!