Dress tartan = failed concept?

**Tartan Hiker** · 2nd February 10, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Tobus

*edited to add: Apparently the system won't let me change the thread title that displays in the forum. Sorry.

If you want the title changed, PM the change to me and I'll fix it for you.

**McMurdo** · 2nd February 10, 06:29 PM

I don't think of dress tartans as a fail, I own and wear a Dress MacDonald tartan and not just for formal affairs, I think as Jock says most people are quite satisfied with one kilt, perhaps therefore the dress tartans have not cault on like others.

**D.A. Guertin** · 2nd February 10, 06:32 PM

Now, see, I'm in the unusual position of not particularly liking 'dress' tartans in general, but liking fairly garish tartans. My tartan is MacLeod of Lewis, and I have a length of fabric in MacLeod black and white. Talk about bright! Buccleuch Check is another I really like, as well as the should-be-appalling Christina Young tartan and Ferguson the Astronomer. However, I also really like fairly sombre tartans, including Black Stewart, Thompson Grey Dress, and the Glenaffric Fragment. Maybe I'm just peculiar. ;-)

**davidlpope** · 2nd February 10, 08:10 PM

Came across this in a different thread. Not sure when it dates from- maybe the 50's? Of note is that 2 of the 4 male dancers wear "dress tartans" with "white-added" and only one of the female dancers in the foreground wears a "white-added" dress tartan.

Cordially,

David

**jordanjm** · 2nd February 10, 08:15 PM

Some of those dress tartans are nice.

**ThinBlueLine** · 3rd February 10, 06:30 AM

Hey all,

Interestingly enough the standard Hannay tartan is mostly white/off-white while the "dress" version is pink/red.

Standard Hannay:

"Dress" Hannay:

**Tartan Hiker** · 3rd February 10, 01:44 PM

Thread title changed per request of OP.
Bill

**Fit2BKilted** · 4th February 10, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by Dixiecat

I wonder if you could edit the title of this thread? Dress tartan is not fail. How can you not love Dress Turnbull?

I was just about to mention that Dress Turnbull (with it's conspicuous omission of White thread) is very handsome (it's also my mother-in-law's tartan).

**tulloch** · 4th February 10, 08:16 AM

Originally Posted by cajunscot

That's because there is a Vermont Dress tartan, and a regular tartan tae boot:

http://www.standrewssocietyofvermont.org/

:mrgreen:

T.

Ahhh, very nice. Thank you for that. The pipe band I saw this summer in a couple New England locations had the dress Vermont. Very snappy. Love the regular VT.

**Galician** · 4th February 10, 08:45 AM

I wear the Galician tartan, which has a cream base, but I don't think that it would be labeled as a "dress" tartan, since it's the only one for that region.

Curiously, at a Burns Dinner this past weekend, I had a woman from Scotland swear to me that it was really the Cameron of Erracht(?) tartan, which she had left home.