My thrift store find..

**English Bloke** · 30th June 11, 09:34 PM

Black would be good. Nice Jacket!

**Spartan Tartan** · 1st July 11, 02:32 AM

What a great find! Lucky man.

**OC Richard** · 1st July 11, 03:51 AM

I've often browsed through the women's plaid skirts at thrift stores hoping one day to find a lovely man's kilt. (That's where a kilt would end up, for sure.)

I do get strange looks...

I did, many years ago, find a lovely tartan floorlength skirt, from Lochcarron, at a thrift store, which my girlfriend at that time bought and wore to formal functions.

**chrisupyonder** · 1st July 11, 04:45 AM

What a bargain! Very nice.
I did go into a charity shop in Wick, Caithness and looked at the lines of tartan skirts. I mentioned to the staff that I was looking to see if there were any mens kilts. She said they rarely get mens kilts in but would let me know if I give them my telephone number. That was 2 years ago. Never heard from them but have called in recently and got the same answer. Mens kilts of quality are probably passed down to sons etc.

Chris.

**CMcG** · 1st July 11, 07:11 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

I've often browsed through the women's plaid skirts at thrift stores hoping one day to find a lovely man's kilt. (That's where a kilt would end up, for sure.)

I do get strange looks...

I did, many years ago, find a lovely tartan floorlength skirt, from Lochcarron, at a thrift store, which my girlfriend at that time bought and wore to formal functions.

I believe Kiltedwolfman has found men's kilts in the women's section and slohairt has found large size, heavyweight women's tartan skirts with enough material to make a 4 yard men's kilt out of.

Last summer, I found a girl's skirt in heavyweight wool done up in the Alberta provincial tartan. There wasn't much material in it, but enough at least for my mother to have a sash and bit left over to someday make a waistcoat from.

Last week, I found a pair of dress ghillie brogues that I'm in the process of customizing with buckles:http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...ization-67462/

**tkdog** · 1st July 11, 07:29 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

I've often browsed through the women's plaid skirts at thrift stores hoping one day to find a lovely man's kilt. (That's where a kilt would end up, for sure.)

I do get strange looks...

I've done that several times, and I get the looks too... but I've never found anything

**Dale-of-Cedars** · 1st July 11, 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by tkdog

I've done that several times, and I get the looks too... but I've never found anything

I often look through the ladies purse section at our Value Village, as I'm hoping someday to find a sporran accidentally misfiled...

**jeremy j starche** · 1st July 11, 09:52 AM

My sister found a wool kilt at the thrift store that her husband is known to wear upon occasion. No makers marks on it and it is a lighter weight wool... Think she paid about USD$10 for it or so...

My Lady found a utilikilt at the thrift store that looked like it was never worn for $10. Although it was too large for me, I was able to find it a good home here on Xmarks in trade for a neat sock decoration.

**OC Richard** · 2nd July 11, 03:51 AM

Originally Posted by Dale-of-Cedars

I often look through the ladies purse section at our Value Village, as I'm hoping someday to find a sporran accidentally misfiled...

Around 20 years ago a friend found a number of Scottish-made sealskin Evening Dress sporrans complete with chainstraps in the purse section of an ordinary Department Store (Macy's or some such).

These were stamped MADE IN SCOTLAND REAL LEATHER and were normal mens sporrans.

Sealskin at the time was illegal to import, but here they were!

He bought one, and told me about them. When I went down they had all been sold. I think they were around $40, a fraction of what they would have cost as sporrans.

**sp00ky** · 2nd July 11, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by Dale-of-Cedars

I often look through the ladies purse section at our Value Village, as I'm hoping someday to find a sporran accidentally misfiled...

My routine is scan the length of suits - looking at cuffs and shoulders, then I check out purses and belts (sporrans and kilt belts) then shoes. Lastly I walk the ladies skirts looking for tartan.

The week after I found the jecket I spotted a MacKenzie tartan and my heart leapt - turns out it was a former school uniform kilt for girls, but for $7.00 my daughter has a MacKenzie kilt to wear at the games this summer rather than her school kilt.

I have also found a few kilt pins in the jewelry section, but have not bought any of them as they were cheap and ugly.

To clarify I maybe do this once every 2 months or so... its not like I am there every day!

Scott