The wearing of hunting, muted or ancient kilts.

**Reiver** · 25th May 15, 09:28 AM

OC...your picture did not come thru so no idea what you love! The Green ancient is just that from the Green modern.
The hunting is modern hunting from the red modern and often called hunting brown.
I do like them both and think the hunting actually a bit brighter than in the pic.

**Grunthos** · 26th May 15, 02:05 PM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

I have always, since I first saw this movie in the 60s, loved this tartan!

For those of us that may be in some portion culturally impaired

what movie is that? Thanks!

**Pleater** · 27th May 15, 02:37 AM

After wearing one of my earliest kilts for many summers, I ripped it rather badly, and had to retire it to be dusters, but the colours had faded quite dramatically. Although the hunting colours are a different matter, getting the weathered ones will happen naturally given time, wearing and some sun and rain onto the standard colourway.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

**Jack Daw** · 27th May 15, 05:05 AM

Originally Posted by Grunthos

For those of us that may be in some portion culturally impaired

what movie is that? Thanks!

"Tunes of Glory," yae wee man!

**OC Richard** · 27th May 15, 05:51 AM

Sorry about that, the image diskappeared as Popeye would say.

I put up another.

It's the beautiful Scott brown/hunting which was worn in Tunes Of Glory as Steve pointed out.

Here:

**Reiver** · 27th May 15, 08:32 AM

Thanks OC great picture....great Tartan but I'm not sure that is Scott Hunting.....is it listed as so somewhere?

**Downunder Kilt** · 27th May 15, 03:32 PM

Here is a thread on the kilts from the Tunes of glory http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-harper-68312/

One of our members managed to obtain a kilt that was used in the movie Cheers

**Manxstralian** · 27th May 15, 04:55 PM

That's a beautiful tartan, it looks amazing pleated to the stripe! I think it would work for all levels of dress.

Cheers,

Cameron

**Reiver** · 27th May 15, 05:22 PM

Thanks for the link, excellent.....Scott Hunting Ancient so that accounts for the color/hue's. I agree, looks very good pleated to the stripe.
Glad I asked for some help...seeing a swatch of Tartan often does not do it justice (my ability to see/imagine it in a full kilt is limited)....I'm now leaning in that Hunting ancient direction as seeing a full kilt to the stripe looks really classy in a subdued way and that's what I was looking for.
Leaning no...that's the Tartan.

OC, bought the DVD movie on Amazon too...gotta love Alec Guinness

**OC Richard** · 27th May 15, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by Reiver

OC, bought the DVD movie on Amazon too...gotta love Alec Guinness

Yes the movie is great and Sir Alec is amazing. It's got to be just about the best "kilt movie" of all time.

You know how you'll see a movie, then finally get round to reading the book, and find out that the movie is pale by comparison, the book having a more complex yet more clear plot, far more character development, and so forth?

It's not like that, with Tunes Of Glory.

The book is short and the movie is pretty much a complete filming of the book, line for line, scene for scene. In fact Sir Alec brings a certain psychological dimension to his character that I didn't really get from the book. Don't know if he did that on his own, or the added dimension was discussed among director, writer, and actor.