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Scotland’s celebrity kilt-maker: The guy who makes man skirts for the cool guys
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Scotland’s celebrity kilt-maker: The guy who makes man skirts for the cool guys

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Nov 19, 2024
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Scotland’s celebrity kilt-maker: The guy who makes man skirts for the cool guys
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“How do you become a celebrity kilt maker? The guy who makes man skirts for the cool guys?”

Howie Nicholsby, Edinburgh’s kilt maker to the stars, pours me a generous tumbler of whiskey before he answers my question.

“I ended up in rehab as part of an acid psychosis,” he says without missing a beat. “It saved my life.”

Howie comes from four generations of k…

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