Rocky, LAST Friday's episode made me regret having not watched it live, because the discussions hit home on at least one PERSONAL uncertainty: whether it's EVER permissible to mix tartans. My specific example is "what to wear on Burns Night." The most recent of tartans that honor the Scottish bard is the VERY neutral "Burns Check."
I think I could wear it above my Robertson Hunting (weathered) or my D.C. Dalgliesh "Lunar" tartan kilt, probably outfitted in a Prince Charlie or the modern barathea charcoal jacket favored by King Charles amidships..
Of course no one would lock me up for doing so, but I'm curious whether YOU think using the bow as a tip of the hat (or neck) to Rabbie on January 25th would be acceptable.
Of course no one would lock me up for doing so, but I'm curious whether YOU think using the bow as a tip of the hat (or neck) to Rabbie on January 25th would be acceptable.
It's not something that I would do and I doubt if many would recognise a small sample of Burns tartan anyway. It's a free world and you will do what you will do.
" Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the adherence of idle minds and minor tyrants". Field Marshal Lord Slim.
...one PERSONAL uncertainty: whether it's EVER permissible to mix tartans.
It was done by Highland civilians as a matter of course until "Clan tartans" started becoming a thing around the 1822 Royal visit.
And it's been done in the military for hundreds of years, and still done today. (I wish ONE more could be sneaked into the 4SCOTS piper's kit, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, as the rear drone ribbon, as it used to be.)
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