Quote Originally Posted by Arnot View Post
I like the look. I have a day plaid, but I haven't really worn it. I have used it quite a bit as a blanket, though. As it happens, I am making another one at the moment. I plan on using this one more as it will be better suited. It still won't be an everyday thing, though.
Yes, I am having a length of Old Stewart woven in the original Wilson's of Bannockburn thread colours and so I am getting enough to give me a good day plaid as well as my kilt. I have always thought the day plaid is a very practical plaid, a beautiful blanket really.
What I love about the painted characters is you get the sense that they live in these outfits (well, perhaps without their best sporrans 😀) and the plaid wrapped around them is just what you would do in icey wet Scottish weather. It approximates the belted plaid's 'plaid' in size and function.
I would wear it at a freezing Highland Games or walking in the Highland's away from modern tracksuit culture ha ha.
on a Laird's estate for instance, by Jove. Or whilst quietly having a Scots day at home listening to Piobroch's and reading Tartan history books.
I find the modern plaids very limited. Aside from playing in a full dress pipe band, at a very formal Highland ball or as a Bridegroom when does one wear them?
My wife is a 'cold frog' so I presume I will wrapping my day plaid about her and my kids more than myself 😀