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17th April 12, 05:35 AM
#1
Maybe... Maybe NOT
I have followed the debate over the rogue "Dress Campbell" tartan from time to time, but have never encountered "Black Watch Dress" before:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERB-16OZ-...item3374b9b9aa
I have to say, it seems to me to be the saddest thing you could do to the BW... It looks like Dress Gordon with the proportions off- way off.
Some take the high road and some take the low road. Who's in the gutter? MacLowlife
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17th April 12, 06:52 AM
#2
The waist size is mentioned as being a 42" in the bold heading, but then in the smaller font under the picture is says 32" waist. I'd ask the seller before buying it. I had never seen that tartan before.
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17th April 12, 07:10 AM
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 Originally Posted by MacLowlife
I have followed the debate over the rogue "Dress Campbell" tartan from time to time, but have never encountered "Black Watch Dress" before:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERB-16OZ-...item3374b9b9aa
I have to say, it seems to me to be the saddest thing you could do to the BW... It looks like Dress Gordon with the proportions off- way off.
look at this: http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tar....aspx?ref=4935
 Originally Posted by Pleater
Weeelll - once I was walking along the row of shops near us and passed a young couple, she was wearing a narrow strip of denim for a skirt and a couple of handkerchieves worth of fabric for a blouse and it was losing the fight to stay closed - I was almost out of earshot when he enquired 'why doesn't your skirt move like that?' Anne the Pleater
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17th April 12, 10:24 AM
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There are at least two other dress variations of Black Watch. It could similarly be sold as Dress Campbell, Sutherland or Hunting Grant.
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17th April 12, 10:36 AM
#5
I was married in a Campbell dress tartan kilt. I refer to it as "the wedding tartan", though. If The Campbell won't have it, I'd gladly claim it for my own.
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17th April 12, 10:36 AM
#6
De Gustibus non est disputandem, but I am reminded of Burns:
The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft Ugle'
Some take the high road and some take the low road. Who's in the gutter? MacLowlife
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17th April 12, 04:28 PM
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17th April 12, 04:31 PM
#8
Not a big fan of so much white tossed into what is otherwise a very subdued tartan.
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17th April 12, 04:45 PM
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I had to think back, but I remember someone wearing one in an ancient tone to a Scottish dance evening. His was heavy-weight wool, so the set was a bit larger. In the softer blues and greens, this tartan had a very friendly look to it.
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