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    Maybe... Maybe NOT

    I have followed the debate over the rogue "Dress Campbell" tartan from time to time, but have never encountered "Black Watch Dress" before:

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERB-16OZ-...item3374b9b9aa

    I have to say, it seems to me to be the saddest thing you could do to the BW... It looks like Dress Gordon with the proportions off- way off.
    Some take the high road and some take the low road. Who's in the gutter? MacLowlife

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    The waist size is mentioned as being a 42" in the bold heading, but then in the smaller font under the picture is says 32" waist. I'd ask the seller before buying it. I had never seen that tartan before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MacLowlife View Post
    I have followed the debate over the rogue "Dress Campbell" tartan from time to time, but have never encountered "Black Watch Dress" before:

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERB-16OZ-...item3374b9b9aa

    I have to say, it seems to me to be the saddest thing you could do to the BW... It looks like Dress Gordon with the proportions off- way off.
    look at this: http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tar....aspx?ref=4935
    Quote Originally Posted by Pleater View Post
    Weeelll - once I was walking along the row of shops near us and passed a young couple, she was wearing a narrow strip of denim for a skirt and a couple of handkerchieves worth of fabric for a blouse and it was losing the fight to stay closed - I was almost out of earshot when he enquired 'why doesn't your skirt move like that?' Anne the Pleater

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    There are at least two other dress variations of Black Watch. It could similarly be sold as Dress Campbell, Sutherland or Hunting Grant.

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    I was married in a Campbell dress tartan kilt. I refer to it as "the wedding tartan", though. If The Campbell won't have it, I'd gladly claim it for my own.

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    De Gustibus non est disputandem, but I am reminded of Burns:

    The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft Ugle'
    Some take the high road and some take the low road. Who's in the gutter? MacLowlife

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    It's not my favourite...

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    Not a big fan of so much white tossed into what is otherwise a very subdued tartan.

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    I had to think back, but I remember someone wearing one in an ancient tone to a Scottish dance evening. His was heavy-weight wool, so the set was a bit larger. In the softer blues and greens, this tartan had a very friendly look to it.

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