Skirting Costs

[Ron]

and it does seem to be getting a bit off topic too

[Kilted Musician]

I think it's time for another not-so-wee Dram.....Cheers everybody!

T.

Hi Tom! All this discussion about the conversions to and from units I've never heard of has my head spinning in metric ways I've never imagined! Time for a Dram or 2... or 3! May everyone have a wonderful Holiday Season! Maybe someday I can cross the "pond" and have a face-to-face meet up with you all!

--Rick

P.S. To keep this sort of 'on-topic,' I usually gets my skirts at thrift stores and usually pay about $5 for them. Let's see... that would be about £3.09, €3.79, 6.07 $NZ, 4.81 $A... sorry... got a little carried away!

[skirtingtheissue]

Computers get along very nicely in human terms by using octal notation, and one evolutionary question I've always pondered, given how blazingly successful dinosaurs were and that they had eight digits to work with, was whether they were better suited to binary computers than we humans are.

Cartoon characters usually have only eight digits also, so octal and binary arithmetic should come more easily to them.

[Kirbstone]

Carl,
A fine opening chapter to which I was going to add another five, but alas one of my (two) typing fingers insisted it get wrapped round a decent glass of Malt, and that's brought a halt to my typing, you will be relieved to read. I agree with Uncle Al....That sort of buff isn't for us elderly simple folk.

Cheers,


T.

[guyinnadress]

Wow. You go on holiday for a couple of weeks and a little post about the costs of wearing a skirt becomes huge lol

[Kirbstone]

I'm getting picky about my skirts in my (extreme) old age. Before Christmas I had one made up with nice big pockets in it, so from the same people I've ordered a denim similar with lots of pleats for ease of movement and room for my big hands, too.
Not cheap. They've quoted me Eur 160 for this one-off. Skirting costs!

T.

[Lawrence de Grande]

In my case I cannot afford $100+ USD for one kilt. In my humble opinion, someone should be able to produce kilts for a much more reasonable price. If that happened, I believe that the popularity of kilts would go up dramatically. Meanwhile, with the glut of second hand ladies clothes on the market I can buy twenty skirts for that so I'll be wearing ladies skirts until things change.

[Caultron]

Try www.utkilts.com, http://www.etsy.com/, or eBay. All have utility kilts for less than $100.

[Lawrence de Grande]

Try http://www.utkilts.com, http://www.etsy.com/, or eBay. All have utility kilts for less than $100.

Thanks for the post. I just ordered my new kilt from UtKilts. Can't wait to get it .

[Caultron]

Thanks for the post. I just ordered my new kilt from UtKilts. Can't wait to get it .

Thanks, glad to be of assistance. I'm sure you won't have long to wait; they ship from stock and their service is usually excellent.

Keep us posted, eh? Maybe a photo or two?

[Lawrence de Grande]

Just went to the post office in my new skirt to pick up my new kilt. I love it. Will get some pix of me up soon.

[Ray]

I may sound like a stuck record, but when it comes to kilts, I refuse to cut corners. It's a proper Scottish kilt or nothing. I'm off to a black tie do tonight in my kilt, bought for £300 (€350, US$450) in 1995. It has seen over 100 wearings. That's real value, and in buying it, I have helped preserve an industry. Value for money does not always equate with cheap. The idea of a sub-£100 kilt horrifies me.

My skirts are considerably cheaper - and disposable items by comparison.

[Stu]

Ray,

You say: "Value for money does not always equate with cheap. The idea of a sub-£100 kilt horrifies me."

I can perfectly well understand your point of view. I have met you and I know you to be a justifiably proud Scotsman and you look absolutely splendid in you kilt.

However, I have never worn a kilt because I have no Scottish ancestry; I think I would feel a bit fraudulent wearing a traditional Scottish kilt - almost as though I was appropriating your national dress and claiming a heritage that was not mine. I guess many other English and Welsh people would feel the same and perhaps that's why we have to make do with second best - stuff like Utilikilts.

Stu (now in Sweden)

[Ray]

Stu - we need to catch up again!

I am delighted when non Scots wear the kilt. I married last year. Three Englishmen wore the kilt - one of them wore one of my own kilts - in fact, my family tartan kilt. It's a joy to see the garment embraced by non Scots, and all a non Sgot needs to say in defence of the kilt is that by wearing it, they are honouring the country of origin. That'll do for me!

[Caultron]

Just went to the post office in my new skirt to pick up my new kilt. I love it. Will get some pix of me up soon.

So, how's the new kilt working out? Like, have you been anywhere with it?