Pride of Pride parades

[Taffy Jack]

Curious to know the Rabble's thoughts on this recently registered tartan:

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/ta...ails?ref=11871

[Taskr]

Its quite colourful but none more so than, say, Wounded Warrior. Pleating should have some good and varied options. Its unfortunate weaving is restricted as that might lessen its being worn; not that designers don't deserve compensation for their art, time and effort.

[48HofC]

I am actually surprised it took this long for someone to do this. Business wise it's brilliant because now anyone who designs a tartan based on a LGBT theme will need to be careful not to infringe as this is seemingly the first. It might turn out quite lucrative for the designer.

[Tobus]

I thought it would have more rainbowy colours...

[WalesLax]

I think it is a great idea, but as others have stated, this isn't the look I would have anticipated. On the register, it states"...his tartan is based on the New York City tartan and incorporates the variety of bright colours used to identify that movement around the world." I would like to have heard more about those colors and their meanings. I'm always intrigued by the "why's" and the connections.

As someone who pipes in a number of pride and/or gay-rights parades, I wouldn't imagine this is going to be a huge seller. While kilts are quite popular at them, wool is probably not going to be the most conducive material to wear to them as my experience has always been that they are in hot, humid weather (and that is in NY and Chicago).

Not the greatest picture (because who wears pants under a kilt), but the utilikilt with rainbow inside the pleats is probably my favorite.


Final comment - if this gets more people into a kilt, I think it is fantastic and a success.

Rob

[Steve Ashton]

Not really the first - The Tartan of Pride is SRT #5684. Designed back in 2008.



There was another designed back in 1999 which was called Rainbow.


Then, a year later, an asymmetrical design by the same designer was registered. Now called Rainbow Kilt.



There are also Rainbow of Ft. Worth and Way of the rainbow.

Hamish, The Kilted Legend, had this made by Howie Nickelsby back in 2001.

[tripleblessed]

I think it is a great idea, but as others have stated, this isn't the look I would have anticipated. On the register, it states"...his tartan is based on the New York City tartan and incorporates the variety of bright colours used to identify that movement around the world." I would like to have heard more about those colors and their meanings. I'm always intrigued by the "why's" and the connections

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbo...LGBT_movement)

At the time of the raid, my time at the Federal Reserve was near its end, and I segued into theater through a friend from Honors Programs
I hadn't seen since high school. That led to being the only straight guy in a play which involved the first male/male kiss seen on an Atlanta
stage. We got death threats. We went on anyway. Nobody died, but we were closed to standing room only houses after a highly acclaimed
short run at the premier theater in the city. It provided a real eye-opener of an education on systematic discrimination and abuse most had
not encountered. Coming so close on the heels of the civil rights movement and framed by the feelings around our presence overseas, the
police raid triggered an explosive exposure of the abuse of power on that portion of society. I have brave friends on all sides of all those issues,
so no position taken to create dissension. Just responding to history and color question.

[Tarheel]

The fabric is vibrant for sure. My guess is there will be folks that will envision and consign vests, jackets, ties, shirts, slacks, wraps, etc., before they will think of kilts mainly because of the fabric itself (made of wool or not). I agree the pleating options are endless and ten people could make ten different kilts (each unique) with this material.

Too flashy for me but I like the design.