Samurai Kilt

Girl Maths or Cost Per Wear (CPW) is a concept where we can start to think about how much the garment will really cost us.....

Our Girl Month Bible is HERE

Basically, we might buy something for £20 and wear it once, but if we buy something for £200 and just wear it 20 times that is £10 per wear. Wear it 200 times and its just £1!!! Often when we pay a little more for something, we will love it more because we really had to think about it before we handed over our money. It kinda makes sense right?

Read more about our transparent pricing and processes here and check out the girl math examples on all of our Black Elements Collection items.

It is something the 'fashion' world in particular is really bad at.... but we are bad-ass so nothing to hide under this piece of tartan, nothing bad but maybe an ass!

• Size – We can tailor this to any maximum waistband size, but we have with this one cracked the ultimate one size really does fit all!
Our genius design ensures that this kilt can fit a waist from x inches to y inches - how amazing is that! All you do is play with the excess fabric and place pleats exactly where you would like them. Your samurai kilt will be made to order, then despatched within 2 weeks of the fabric being woven..

• Length – this is without doubt our NEW fullest kilt, both in length and swish. Because yes we love the drama!

MINI KILT

From the top of the waistband it has a drop between 16-20”. The style has a funky curved hem line, with a 16" length at the centre front and back, flowing down to a 20" length on the side seams.

FULL KILT

From the top of the waistband it has a drop between 40-44”. The style has a funky curved hem line, with a 40" length at the centre front and back, flowing down to a 44" length on the side seams.

• Waistband – this amazing design has a waistband range of 28" to 52"!!! Crazy right.... all you need to do is create your own pleats depending on how much of the waistband is rushed when you buckle up! Simply fold the excess fabric in between each of the belt loop spaces and you will have added your own designer detail. This is what we did with the great kilt of the past in the Highlands, folded pleats in fabric so the garment could be worn by many over many many years.

• Fabric Repeat – all fabric has been cut by hand from the cloth roll woven at our mill, therefore aspects of the repeat will be unique to each item, which is pretty cool as it makes them all unique!

If you need any help with working out your sizes, then check out our Measure Me Size Guide

Check out some rebel looks with the team at Prickly Thistle.

Real womxn wearing real clothes in a real fun way!

See Clare, the founder of Prickly Thistle, share more about the collection, how you can build your very own garment, what the design features are and why making clothing on a made to measure basis is making a better future for us all (and looking very rebel bad-ass!)

For all of our made to order items we can usually have your made to order and measure clothing to you within 2 weeks, when our fabric stores have your fabric on the roll.

For all items ordered as part of the 4 X A Year Club, we can have your clothing to you from as early as 2 weeks or it may be up to 8-10 weeks if we need more fabric. As we are weavers, its super handy right! No waiting months and months for items to pass around various factories, we do it all under one roof.

There is loads of cool things you can do and do not need to do when you wear natural fibre clothing! For the full low down on all this caring, checkout our guide and for more info on worn wear repairs, here is some tricks of the trade!.

You can also read more about our No Wash Club Rules here, try it!

We want to help be part of the solution that drives regenerative change. Buying less, loving more, paying ethical prices and feeling awesome is what we are all about.

To do that, we have these yes we give a sh#t options for you!

1. Our 4 X A Year Pre Order

2. Lay-Away Plans

3. Become a VIR

We offer worldwide fully tracked shipping to all customers. Your clothes will be sent to you in our bad-ass compostable shippers. There is also some surprises in their too, like our tartan rebellion organic tote, free with every order and cedar hand branded hangers for all clothing items!

Please read our full shipping policy for more info on other countries, duties, taxes and all that stuff.