The highest quality
scottish attire
this side of
the Atlantic.
Bear Hollow cuts box pleat kilts from heavyweight cloth woven at the best mills in the United Kingdom — made to one man's measurements, in the older fashion, built to be worn for decades.
Fitting call included · No charge until the cloth is ordered
Four things, made properly
Bonnets and accessories are made to order. Kilts and waistcoats are cut to your measurements after we have spoken.
A small shop,
one man,
start to
finish.
Bear Hollow is a one-man shop. Tony Davis designs every piece, sits in on every fitting, and stands behind everything that leaves the shop — there is no production line standing between the man who ordered a kilt and the man who cut it.
It started with a simple question: whether a kilt could still be made properly, cut on the older lines, from real cloth, fit to the man wearing it rather than a size chart. The commissions that followed have not stopped since.
The relationships built along the way — with the British mills who weave the cloth, and the American tailors he trusts to construct it — are what make that possible today.
Meet the HouseRoughly one in five
Highlanders wore the kilt at the height of the era most now picture as universal.
Workwear first
The small kilt was cut down for hard industrial labor, long before it stood for anything ceremonial.
One hundred years
separate the end of the clan system from the invention of the clan tartan.
Nobody has ever
been measured well
by a size chart.
Every commission starts with a video call. It costs nothing, it commits you to nothing, and it is the reason these kilts fit the first time rather than the second.
- 01
We talk
Twenty minutes on a video call. What it is for, how you will wear it, what you already own that it has to sit with.
- 02
We measure together
You are walked through every measurement on camera. Nothing is guessed and nothing is left to a chart.
- 03
The cloth is chosen
Sett, weight and yardage settled between us. Only then is payment taken in full and the cloth ordered.
- 04
It is made and sent
Twelve to fourteen weeks. Box pleated to the sett, hand-finished, and shipped with the paw-mark label sewn in.
On cloth, history,
and bad advice
Sent in by the men who own them
A kilt outlives the man
who commissions it.
Which is a reason to get the cloth, the weight and the cut right the first time. Start with a call. It costs nothing and it is the most useful twenty minutes in the whole process.