Quote Originally Posted by RockyR View Post
This is the Brooks Brothers tartan I'm referring to. It was designed by Brian Wilton (prior head of the Scottish Tartan Authority) back in 2012.

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/ta...ails?ref=10652

I've seen it in the wild in their stores on a lot of different items years ago.
WOW! I had NO idea it was such a recent creation.

When I learned to read, 7½ decades ago, one of my favorite pastimes was leafing through my mom's weekly New Yorker issues. although I lingered only on the cartoons and the full page ads for cultural opposites (Bentley/Rolls Cars vs. countercultural VW Beatles). Ballantine Beer ads featuring a different ethnic/immigrant minority each week (and in the process losing their entire market), and of course the Brooks Brothers ads. Now aware that the BB tartan is barely a decade old, it's clear to me they've certainly not paid much attention to their own commission!