Carnegie tartan synthetic?

[Riverkilt]

Years ago (when women weren't wearing bras) I sold caps and gowns to universities.

My company worked with the university bookstores for not just the mass graduation rental of caps and gowns, but to sell individual caps and gowns to the professors who had to wear them frequenly.

Like tartans for kilts he hoods that indicate the degree field, degree level, and university the degree is from hoods had to be ordered on an individual basis. And of course the style of gown for master's and doctorate degrees are different BUT STILL UNBIFURCATED

I'm guessing most university bookstores still provide the same service - taking individual orders for unbifurcated gowns and individual hood color combinations.

Would be easy for them to take similar orders for an "official" university tartan kilt. All they do is measure, just like they measure for a cap and gown purchase.

I submit that the mechanism is already in place at every university. University Bookstore managers like that they don't need to expend any money on inventory. They just measure, deliver, and make a clean profit with academic regalia, why not with academic tartan kilts too??

A manufacturer might need to donate a starter kilt to display at the bookstore. Or better, do what Ford did with the first mustangs. Find some student leaders willing to wear one on campus and give them the kilt in exchange for wearing it regularly to attract attention. That and a few student newspaper ads and maybe a feature article about the university tartan, how it evolved, the concept of wearing kilts over pants etc.

Guess you can take the old guy out of marketing but you can't take the marketing out of the old guy.

Jeff,Mike, Steve, Rocky...you guys listening....??

Ron

[Pittsburgh Kilts]

A CMU kilt story:

Several months ago I went to a dart "luck of the draw" in a kilt (as usual). One of the other darters was a LARGE black fellow we call "D-Train". Now D-Train is always a very cool guy, but this night he had been drinking for several hours, and was particularly animated. He spotted my kilt, let out a yell, and immmediately adopted me as a long lost brother. It seems that D-train is a CMU graduate.

At one point during the night, D-Train overheard someone making a comment about my kilt. He came over and put his arm around me, and announced, "Hey man, you can't say anything bad about the kilt! I wear a kilt, too. Of course, it's a different color, but we can't discriminate on the basis of color, now can we?" He gave out a big old smile, and burst out laughing!

Gotta love CMU alums. Now, if you are interested in a two-tone kilt in CMU colors, give me a call!!

[Pittsburgh Kilts]

A CMU kilt story:

Several months ago I went to a dart "luck of the draw" in a kilt (as usual). One of the other darters was a LARGE black fellow we call "D-Train". Now D-Train is always a very cool guy, but this night he had been drinking for several hours, and was particularly animated. He spotted my kilt, let out a yell, and immmediately adopted me as a long lost brother. It seems that D-train is a CMU graduate.

At one point during the night, D-Train overheard someone making a comment about my kilt. He came over and put his arm around me, and announced, "Hey man, you can't say anything bad about the kilt! I wear a kilt, too. Of course, it's a different color, but we can't discriminate on the basis of color, now can we?" He gave out a big old smile, and burst out laughing!

Gotta love CMU alums. Now, if you are interested in a two-tone kilt in CMU colors, give me a call!!

[Pittsburgh Kilts]

A CMU kilt story:

Several months ago I went to a dart "luck of the draw" in a kilt (as usual). One of the other darters was a LARGE black fellow we call "D-Train". Now D-Train is always a very cool guy, but this night he had been drinking for several hours, and was particularly animated. He spotted my kilt, let out a yell, and immmediately adopted me as a long lost brother. It seems that D-train is a CMU graduate.

At one point during the night, D-Train overheard someone making a comment about my kilt. He came over and put his arm around me, and announced, "Hey man, you can't say anything bad about the kilt! I wear a kilt, too. Of course, it's a different color, but we can't discriminate on the basis of color, now can we?" He gave out a big old smile, and burst out laughing!

Gotta love CMU alums. Now, if you are interested in a two-tone kilt in CMU colors, give me a call!!

[ggibby]

Hmmm... large black Carnegie Mellon alum throwing darts? Wonder if that's John "Mandingo" Simon, a fraternity brother o' mine. He would have been Class of '90 I think. Stranger things...

As far a 'school colors,' for athletic purposes Carnegie uses maroon and white, and I have a fair amount of those colors.

For most other occasions and notably Doctoral hoods, the school uses Carnegie Ancient. It is bottle green and light blue with orange narrow stripes and black wider stripes. I'm kinda stuck on the idea of tartan.

[ggibby]

Hmmm... large black Carnegie Mellon alum throwing darts? Wonder if that's John "Mandingo" Simon, a fraternity brother o' mine. He would have been Class of '90 I think. Stranger things...

As far a 'school colors,' for athletic purposes Carnegie uses maroon and white, and I have a fair amount of those colors.

For most other occasions and notably Doctoral hoods, the school uses Carnegie Ancient. It is bottle green and light blue with orange narrow stripes and black wider stripes. I'm kinda stuck on the idea of tartan.

[ggibby]

Hmmm... large black Carnegie Mellon alum throwing darts? Wonder if that's John "Mandingo" Simon, a fraternity brother o' mine. He would have been Class of '90 I think. Stranger things...

As far a 'school colors,' for athletic purposes Carnegie uses maroon and white, and I have a fair amount of those colors.

For most other occasions and notably Doctoral hoods, the school uses Carnegie Ancient. It is bottle green and light blue with orange narrow stripes and black wider stripes. I'm kinda stuck on the idea of tartan.