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.

**Mike_Oettle** · 6th March 11, 12:25 PM

The idea of St George’s cross on a kilt is not entirely outrageous, but those red lions on white, and on the back, the white lions on red, are just wrong.
Aside from the tartans already mentioned there is a most pleasing tartan called St George, designed for English folk to wear, which is in the colours of the Union Flag. Much to be preferred over this design.
Regards,
Mike

**OC Richard** · 7th March 11, 05:39 AM

I could see an England supporter (if he wanted to wear the kilt for some strange reason) donning red & white Menzies (which didn't start out as a clan tartan, but as a pattern for kilt hose).

Someone might well weave a stark tartan with a single bold red stripe on white, forming a number of St George crosses across the kilt.

That Black Country tartan is lovely!! Hmmm... I wonder if I qualify, one Grandmother's family coming here from Dalton-in-Furness...

**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.