Tartans Wish List

[seanachie]

No Seanaachie, it is my understanding that it is a new (2008) Lochcarron tartan but they have not updated their website in quite some time to reflect its addition.
I hope you get some!

Thanks for the response on this, I replied after safely locking the credit cards in the home safe. It seems I just find one "gotta have" tartan and another appears. This will go onto the "wish list" for the future. I do appreciate the reply.

[Whidbey78]

I had to ponder this for a long time. Here goes...

Another US Army(have one) in box pleat, since I'm a soldier now.

US Navy, since I spent six years in the Naval Service before going Army.

MacKay, MacArthur, Gunn, and Gordon because of familial connections.

The Washington State tartan.

Oakley...just like it.

Maple Leaf, because I LOVE Canada. BC tartan too!!

McCarthy, Irish, but an "adopted clan." I have a blood brother who is a McCarthy and wants a kilt in that tartan...five kids and can't afford it. I'll get two when I can get it!! One for each of us.

Irish Nat., Scottish Nat., and American Heritage round out the list of "must haves" but the list itself goes on, and on, and...

[figheadair]

What I have ...
Stewart Royal, Stewart Black, Douglas


For a wish list;

Gunn, ancient
New MOD tartan of the Royal Regiment of Scotland

Not a new tartan but simply Government 1A (Black Watch, 42nd etc) in the shades previously worn by the A and SH. The Royal Regiment of Scotland's various uniforms comprise elements of uniform from all six antecedent Regiments: RS, KOSB, BW, RHF, A and SH and HLDRS.

[OC Richard]

The Royal Regiment of Scotland's various uniforms comprise elements of uniform from all six antecedent Regiments: RS, KOSB, BW, RHF, A and SH and HLDRS.

That whole thing disappoints me. At least they could have had two regiments, Highland and Lowland.

The Royal Scots in kilts! It just isn't right.

Of course in the various orders of dress of the RRS are preserved both trews and kilts, so the trews are still around.

That process of amalgamation where they take bits and pieces of the various regiments' uniforms and stick them together, I'm not sure I like that.

The Highland regiments weren't treated that way in the 1881 amalgamations.

Nonkilted regiments were paired with kilted regiments, and regardless of which was the senior, the entire uniform of the kilted regiment was adopted for both battalions of the new regiment. (In some cases small distinctions remained, such as the differing drone ribbons of the 1st and 2nd Battalions The Seaforth Highlanders etc.)

But in the 20th century when The Queens Own Highlanders was formed from the Cameron Highlanders and Seaforth Highlanders every effort was made to retain bits of both kits. This was continued when the Gordon Highlanders was added to create The Highlanders, and further continued recently with the formation of The Royal Regiment Of Scotland. This method of sticking bits together even went down to such things as sticking the tassels of the Gordon Highlanders sporran onto the Black Watch sporran. This sporran is worn with the kilt of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which bears the ribbons of the kilt of the Black Watch. (The Seaforth Highlanders and Cameron Highlanders were left out of the kilt/sporran equation, it seems.)

[James C]

I called Lochcarron and it is available and priced mid range (select) It may end up in my doorway someday (once I recover financially from my X-marks tartan order...)

I am sure anyone who sells Lochcarron's cloth can get it to you. Unfortunately Lochcarron does not sell directly to private individuals...

We can get this tartan for you from Lochcarron with no problem. Also I am sure a few of the other advertisers could get it for you as well. Very nice tartan to celebrate Robbie Burn's 250th anniversary. It was inspired by the modern version of the toast to the Haggis. It was launched in 2008.