Hose color: bottle vs. tartan green

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 19th May 10, 03:33 AM

Originally Posted by Zardoz

Different vendors may vary, but in my experiance Bottle Green is always a pretty dark blue-grey green tone, like a wine 'bottle', where Tartan Green, sometimes Loden or Forest, is lighter.

This lewis hose color chart shows them pretty well.

http://giftshop.scottishtartans.org/hose_lewis.htm

We call our dark green "bottle green" because a) when we first began carrying the Lewis hose, that's what the color was identified as in the inventory, and b) we believe most of our customers are more familiar with that term than "tartan green."

However, these days that color is identified as "tartan green" when we order. The color hasn't changed any. Just the name.

So see my above post about those two terms being used interchangably.

**Zardoz** · 19th May 10, 08:34 AM

Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome

We call our dark green "bottle green" because a) when we first began carrying the Lewis hose, that's what the color was identified as in the inventory, and b) we believe most of our customers are more familiar with that term than "tartan green."

However, these days that color is identified as "tartan green" when we order. The color hasn't changed any. Just the name.

So see my above post about those two terms being used interchangably.

Matt, I see what you mean, I guess my confusion came from having bought some "tartan green" hose that where lighter shade than some "bottle" ones I already had. Now that I've looked at my extensive green hose selection, it looks like I have at least 3 'shades' of bottle green from different manufacturers.

**OC Richard** · 21st May 10, 05:19 AM

My new St Kilda tweed kilt jacket had a tag which identified its colour as "tartan green". I suppose it means a green similar to the green shade used in "Modern" tartans. However, that's not the colour the jacket actually is: rather the jacket is a muted bluish green, not that far from Lovat Blue.

To me, "bottle green" would be a dark blue-green like old bottles, but the kilt hose I have, which were labelled "bottle green", are a dark true green which Americans would probably call "forest green". In fact, these so-called "bottle green" hose are a shade very much like the green in "Modern" tartans.

Then there's "Archer Green" as the Army calls it, the extremely dark green that Army Scottish doublets are made in. "Archer Green" and British Racing Green are similar to what Americans might call "forest green".

I guess the bottom line is, you have to actually see the hose or jacket or whatever, because these various terms are not used with any consistency.