The Arrival of the McConnell Tartan Kilt

[cessna152towser]

You may recall Ann had wanted to buy me a kilt in the McConnell tartan, which was her maiden name. Her paternal line farmed in Dailly parish in Ayrshire for generations, the earliest record is of one of her direct ancestors James McConnel of Girvan who married Mary Doak of Dailly at Dailly on 21st January 1720.

The kilt was not expected until mid August, however it was ready early and I went to Andersons kilt shop in Dumfries to collect it today. The kilt is 8 yard strome weight in McConnell tartan woven by Dalgleish of Selkirk.
This is the first photo of the new kilt, taken by Pour1Malt outside the entrance to Ferintosh Guest House.

The obligatory pleats shot.

In the evening I visited Ann to show her the kilt.

As an aside here is a window display from Andersons in which the mannequins wear traditional style kilts with tee-shirts and no belts. Superscot on the left of the photo is wearing the Queen of the South tartan.

[RockyR]

Nice! We do the MacConnell Ancient tartan for a local bagpipe band and we have the material on hand (roughly 30 M at current) and I'm making one for myself in that tartan as well. It is a VERY well designed tartan.

[BoldHighlander]

A wonderful looking kilt Alex!

And I sense a certain amount of pride by Ann in the photo of you two together.

[denmcdough]

Alex, very nice lookin' kilt. I want one!!!

[artificer]

beauty tartan, masterfully made kilt, and you wear it well.

I'm slightly puzzled about the Che' t-shirt and the kilt though??? I get the bad pun, but don't really understand the reasoning.

[Brian K]

Alex,

That's a lovely kilt. It's a tartan I've often thought about myself. My mother's father was a McConnell so the family connection has drawn me to it. I've always figured I'd get it in the modern colors but I do like the looks of yours and may have to rethink that. Anne must have been tickled pink to see you in it!

Regards,

Brian

[GMan]

Awesome!