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02-02-2010, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Tobus  *edited to add: Apparently the system won't let me change the thread title that displays in the forum. Sorry. | If you want the title changed, PM the change to me and I'll fix it for you.
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02-02-2010, 06:29 PM
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I don't think of dress tartans as a fail, I own and wear a Dress MacDonald tartan and not just for formal affairs, I think as Jock says most people are quite satisfied with one kilt, perhaps therefore the dress tartans have not cault on like others.  
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02-02-2010, 06:32 PM
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Now, see, I'm in the unusual position of not particularly liking 'dress' tartans in general, but liking fairly garish tartans. My tartan is MacLeod of Lewis, and I have a length of fabric in MacLeod black and white. Talk about bright! Buccleuch Check is another I really like, as well as the should-be-appalling Christina Young tartan and Ferguson the Astronomer. However, I also really like fairly sombre tartans, including Black Stewart, Thompson Grey Dress, and the Glenaffric Fragment. Maybe I'm just peculiar. ;-)
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02-02-2010, 08:10 PM
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Came across this in a different thread. Not sure when it dates from- maybe the 50's? Of note is that 2 of the 4 male dancers wear "dress tartans" with "white-added" and only one of the female dancers in the foreground wears a "white-added" dress tartan. 
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02-02-2010, 08:15 PM
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Some of those dress tartans are nice.
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02-03-2010, 06:30 AM
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Hey all,
Interestingly enough the standard Hannay tartan is mostly white/off-white while the "dress" version is pink/red.
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02-03-2010, 01:44 PM
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Thread title changed per request of OP.
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02-04-2010, 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Dixiecat I wonder if you could edit the title of this thread? Dress tartan is not fail. How can you not love Dress Turnbull? | I was just about to mention that Dress Turnbull (with it's conspicuous omission of White thread) is very handsome (it's also my mother-in-law's tartan).
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02-04-2010, 08:16 AM
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Originally Posted by cajunscot | Ahhh, very nice. Thank you for that. The pipe band I saw this summer in a couple New England locations had the dress Vermont. Very snappy. Love the regular VT.
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02-04-2010, 08:45 AM
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I wear the Galician tartan, which has a cream base, but I don't think that it would be labeled as a "dress" tartan, since it's the only one for that region.
Curiously, at a Burns Dinner this past weekend, I had a woman from Scotland swear to me that it was really the Cameron of Erracht(?) tartan, which she had left home.
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