English Kilt

**chrisupyonder** · 5th March 11, 10:20 PM

I did a search but could not find any mention of this other than a slight mention in another post by myself...

http://www.englishkilt.co.uk/gallery...ry/image14.jpg

My thoughts... fine by me but be carefull in the centre of Glasgow after a football match when the tartan army are coming out of the pubs!

**Zardoz** · 5th March 11, 10:28 PM

that topic was beaten to death here;

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...ges-day-58835/

**chrisupyonder** · 5th March 11, 11:02 PM

Ah! yes, missed that somehow. Thanks.

**OC Richard** · 6th March 11, 05:15 AM

I think those are hideous.

I favour traditional kilts, not kilts which are trying to be flags or graphic images, no matter what their origin.

Though I got a laugh out of a Japanese-American guy I saw at one of our Games wearing The Kilt Of The Rising Sun, a pure white kilt with a huge red circle on the front!

For an English kilt, why not come up with an England tartan, using red and white? I don't care for red and white tartans (Menzies) as it's hard to generate a very pleasing design with such limited colour, but a red and white tartan would be preferable to me over a kilt with the Three Lions logo on it.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 6th March 11, 05:48 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

For an English kilt, why not come up with an England tartan, using red and white? I don't care for red and white tartans (Menzies) as it's hard to generate a very pleasing design with such limited colour, but a red and white tartan would be preferable to me over a kilt with the Three Lions logo on it.

There are several English district tartans, though not an "English National" per se.

The most traditional English tartan is the Northumberland tartan, adopted by the Duke of Northumberland for his pipers in 1760. (I have a length of this in Harris Tweed which I will one day get around to making a kilt from for myself).

Other English tartans include Berwick-upon-tweed, Devon, Sheffield, Somerset, and Tyneside.

**English Bloke** · 6th March 11, 07:03 AM

Not forgetting the Black Country (Left) and Halesowen (Right) Tartans, as designed and produced by X Marks Member Philip Tibbetts.

**llyd** · 7th March 11, 06:02 AM

To each his own..pretty much all my kilts are solid colors at this point...but the lions rampant, et. Al. Are a little wierd...much like the wallpaper kilts from that hotel in Edinburgh...
Even had someone ask me why my kilt was not plaid the other day...

**Spartan Tartan** · 7th March 11, 06:22 AM

I wouldn't wear it. But that's not really saying much. There are a LOT of clothes that I would not wear, but nothing to stop other from doing so.

Of course, I did not notice anyone actually wearing that kilt other than the models. It would be much more interesting to see it being worn by a real person and not just a model.

**O'Callaghan** · 7th March 11, 07:53 PM

Actually, there is a St. George's tartan in red, white and blue. I'd far rather wear it than the monstrosity that was linked to. I don't know anywhere that has it available ex stock, though. In a sense Mac is half right, because you'd have to have some woven.

ScotWeb apparently has the London 1988 tartan available, for those of us who are from there, which I am originally. Mind you, it's complicated, as the borough I come from was only incorporated into Greater London when I was already 8 years old. The tartan commemorates the Lord Mayor's show of 1988, but I don't know of any other London tartan available from stock, or even atall.

And no, I don't mean Ontario!

**Morris at Heathfield** · 8th March 11, 12:47 AM

The St. George tartan was designed by David McGill of International Tartans. Mr. McGill has designed tartans for various political entities. Some were solicited by the entities they were intended to represent; some were not.

Despite the existence of the London '88 tartan, there was a recent competition to create "A Tartan for London". A winner was chosen, but I don't know anything about its availability in woven form.