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    I have been talking to Mark about kilts, because as a member of a highland pipe band. We spend a min. of $450.00 on our Kilts, but we are not will to spend that much for a matching kilt for our spouses. Not only that but we have people that want to be involved socially with us and they can't afford to spend that much to start with. There is a need for kilts in this price range. My first kilt was from Sports Kilts, I purchased as a parade kilt becuase I am a member of a parade krewe in Tampa FL called the Shamrocks. I am not going to wear a $450 Kilt in a parade when I am drink and so is everyone else. After my first kilt in March, I now own six kilts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FrugalCorner View Post
    Well, our kilts do have sewn down pleats on the hip and we did have some photos to show what we could make that are used on about 500 other sites..we removed them so as not to confuse folks. A few people wanted to purchase the blonde.
    Some makers in Pakistan won a army contract to provide kilts to some English Army regiments and there are kilt stores in Scotland that sell the same kilts that we sell.
    I have a pure 100% Scottish Kilt in the Leatherneck tartan that I paid over $350 dollars for and honestly the 16 oz kilts we sell are thicker and you can not tell to look at them which is which.

    Any ways..lets all promote wearing of the Kilt..and See you at the Minnesota Highland games
    its nice to see you're a member of the forrum now. if you can impress us with your kilts im sure your bussiness will skyrocket. I think i read in a post you get you kilts from some of the same venders as stillwater? so, if thats the case Im guessing its the same material basically?
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    Wink

    It matters not to me where a kilt comes from, what matters is the quality and the value for money. We've all surfed the net, in and out of online kilt stores, and we all know that prices go from cheap to heart-stopping I don't expect a Rolls Royce for the price of a skateboard, but neither do I expect a skateboard for the price of a Rolls Royce. I am not one of those for whom kilts are so 'precious', okay, when it's cost you £700, then spilling battery acid down it is going to reduce you to tears, but at the end of the day it's only a piece of clothing. There are those out there who will grab you by your standards and heritage and empty your bank account with a big grin on their face, don't let them

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    Quote Originally Posted by benkilt View Post
    There are those out there who will grab you by your standards and heritage and empty your bank account with a big grin on their face, don't let them
    Hear, hear!
    Virtus Ad Aethera Tendit

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    I am not sure about the whole Rolls Royce/Skate Board kilt comparison.. BUT if our kilts have to be compared to a vehicle I guess I would pick a Jeep CJ-7 (4 cycle, 5 Speed, without air Conditioning)

    We are not a H2 Hummer and we sure ain't a Yugo.

    Cheers

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    HM The Queen's coat of arms?

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    Wow, this thread has turned to...
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    slainte
    CPO Bull here
    I am a 36 years sea service USN/CPO, retired
    I am Irish by my GreatGrandMotrher who was Irish being born in Glasgow; so she's also a "Glasweggian", so CelticBorn/Celtic bred, and as attached as I am to being Irish American, there is a special place in my heart for Scotland. I love Prince Charles Edward and Mo Ghikle Mear and revel i the story of "Bonnie Dundee". Someday I too shall go to Dunoon and hear the pipers in the valleys in the fog.
    I Play the pipes and am a DrumMajor for AOH NewPort/RI Pipes and Drums. We have a Jacobite or two or three or four in our Corps and we love'em! I am in a kilt at a minimum three days a week, Pipes lessons, Pipe band practice and marches, and do go "full regimental" as well as my mates.
    I wear the kilt and my first preference is the O'Keefe, my clan. I wear the tradiitional Saffron of the London Irish Rifle Division and the Ulster 36th Division of great fame when I am in Drum Major duties. I have three AlexisMalcolm kilts the O'keefe, the Edsal Plad [USN Tartan] and the Irish Diaspora [blood tartan]. Malcolm kilts are wonderful and well made. It has come to my attention some comment on (DELETED BY MODERATOR) kilts. I have three Frugal Corner Kilts likewise [16oz. polyviscose] in Black Stewart, Hunting Stewart small set, and Irish Green with accompanying fly plaids. I ordered my first kilt from Frugal corner with some trepidation, but was well pleased with the quality. They are fully lined, selvidge hemmed, fully buckled and belted with fly plaids being fully pearled as a standard. The buckles are not finished quite as nicely as the Malcolms but are nevertheless strong and well made with leather belting being substantial. These are (DELETED BY MODERATOR) kilts and they are very well made and quite rugged; I recommend them highly as they are a very substantial value for a modset sum of money. As for being (DELETED BY MODERATOR) I could care less and the average civilian [non-Celtic, non-piping person] on the street doesn't know the difference and they eat them up.
    I use all of my kilts with the exception oif the band Saffron as part of my kit; I pipoe for funerals and weddings and just about anyother event that folks want, to !pay for!
    I am especially keen to pipe for military funerals and will wear a baldrich with the applicable service coat of arms as part of the kit.
    I am also a "poet", but then all celts are poets from Burns to Joyce and we are the best damned soldiers and sailors in the world.

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    Their kilts are made from acrylic fabric, not polyester-viscose. (No one produces 16 oz. polyester-viscose.) Most would also tell you that the weight is certainly not 16 oz.
    [B][COLOR="DarkGreen"]John Hart[/COLOR]
    Owner/Kiltmaker - Keltoi

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    Don't know what that phrase means in a pejorative sense. In"Pipes world" the phrase (DELETED BY MODERATOR) means nothing more than a set of pipes made in Pakistan, nothing more. I have two sets a set of Brian Borus and a set of BlackWatches and I'll put them up against a set of McCallums' , Gibsons or McClleans any day of the week for fit finish, and quality of sound The reality is that a lot of pipes [and kilts] are coming out of Pakistan and a lot of them are going to HM's Royal Army and they're called (DELETED BY MODERATOR) too by them. Honestly if I got offended by everybody who ever called me "Mic" or "Mackerel Snapper", the world would become an awfully lonesome place for me. On the other hand I do understand that poverty pimp, victim pimp industries are a growth market and there are an awful lot of briefcase sharks [lawyers] out there just waiting to sue somebody back into oblivion for some jerk with a facs machine who thinks he's offended.
    I'm going to sign off for a while as I am particularly hot, and offended myself.


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