Irish Kilts: solid vs. tartan

[opositive]

i recently bought this poster, which i need to mount and which inspired me to get a saffron kilt.

[MacSpadger]

i recently bought this poster, which i need to mount and which inspired me to get a saffron kilt.

Nice poster, but the kilt doesn't look saffron in the print to my eyes, more like the khaki of the jacket. Maybe the artist had never seen a saffron kilt? It's possible......... the poster looks about as cliched stereotypical Irish as you can get, "war pipes", shamrocks, Irish wolfhounds, "Printed in Dublin" but the whole shebang was conceived in London, England during WW1 because, (for various reasons that I obviously won't go into here because it would trangress forum rules), recruitment in Ireland against the Germans was very slow. I often even wonder who posed for the artist, as the blue and white drone ribbons signify, (and have done since June 1861), a piper of the London Scottish regiment. There are other London Scottish similarities in the uniform too, (kilt colour, brown crossbelt, grey hose) and when I saw the original of the poster during the "Propaganda" exhibition as the IWM it noted the painting originated in London too. Those Henry Starck two drone "Irish warpipes" were made in London as well.