Irish Kilts: solid vs. tartan

[Blackrose87]

There doesn't seem to be any mention of kilts in the Dublin St. Patrick's parade Seanachie

[opositive]

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

[mockymock]

Not to steal a thread, but I've been struggling with the tartan decision as I thought most of my life (39 years) I had some Scottish heritage but it seems through researching that it's all Irish. And I did find a MacGuire tartan online as I am a McGuire. But reading g this thread about solid vs tartan got me thinking (plus some Bushmills) that the Irish orange is very similar to my Virginia Tech orange.... maybe a solid orange tartan and maroon Va Tech jacket can work for both my Alma matta and my desire to own a kilt? Is a solid orange kilt just too much???

[lukeyrobertson]

[QUOTE=Blackrose87;1077373]All 3 of my sisters used to be Irish dancers, so I was dragged along to many feisanna all over the country, but mostly in the north. I can almost definitely say I've never seen one kilt at these. The boys all wore black trousers. I can't say that no boys wear kilts, but from my experience they must be quite rare.

My friend is remembering Irish Dancing from 50+ years ago. And I do believe she was referring to young women dancers in kilts. But the videos posted by CMcg are wonderful.

[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.

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