Commonwealth games handover kilt tartan

**Piglet** · 7th December 10, 01:27 PM

I was up in my home town of Keith recently, and a friend who took part in the handover of the Commonwealth Games from Delhi to Glasgow, showed me their kilt, and I immediately thought of this forum, and how some of you might like to see a close up of it.

Having in the past been a bit of a traditionalist, I was quite impressed by the tartan design. It was really quite clever I thought in the way that it didnt look quite like a traditional tartan, but still made the right pattern across the pleats - would be interested to hear what others think.

**YoungMan** · 7th December 10, 01:37 PM

**KenB** · 7th December 10, 01:40 PM

Interesting, creative but not my cup o'tea.

**BroosterB1** · 7th December 10, 01:41 PM

I for one, like it quite a bit. I have several Tye dyed tee shirts that would go well with it.

Not exactly something you would wear to a Burns dinner but defiantly something different!

Really reminds me of something I saw in a window in Santa Fe.

**tulloch** · 7th December 10, 01:41 PM

Wow! That is really ingenious and nice looking. Was that worn in the ceremonies? I will have to look for photos. Do you have any you could post? Thanks for these photos.

**Graham A. Robieson** · 7th December 10, 01:43 PM

Greetings,

Great pics, and I have heard of Jilli Blackwood she takes the traditional and brings a new level of design to it, with much admiration for her methods, I like this design.

All the best,

Graham

**paulhenry** · 7th December 10, 01:45 PM

At the time of the event there was a posting here about those very kilts. I liked them very much and was very impresed of the maker and her designs.
There was a strong feeling in that posting they weren't very "proper" which I thought was a real shame as kilt wearing and making has to move forward, keeping in touch with traditional of course, but it's important that we don't live in the past
Thank you very much for showing some close ups , I'd love to be able to see and feel the cloth

**Tobus** · 7th December 10, 01:46 PM

Interesting idea. It looks like something Picasso would have come up with if someone had asked him to design a tartan.

**paulhenry** · 7th December 10, 01:50 PM

Earlier thread about the games

**Piglet** · 7th December 10, 02:16 PM

Yes sorry should have checked back for a previous thread about them, but was just so excited to finally get some pictures up, that I just posted.

I must say when I first saw it, I thought that it wasn't my cup of tea either, but the more I looked at it, the more I was impressed by the design being a modern take on tartan, and changing its look depending on how far away you were from it etc. The material itself was probably a fairly cheap fabric ( was fully lined inside) so that they could fire out enough for all the dancers, but it was still an impressive garment.