Tartan Gift Shop c1960 catalogue
As you all know I'm a collector of vintage Highland Dress catalogues. I've posted nearly the full Anderson 1936 catalogue and bits of others.
Here is something much more recent, The Tartan Gift Shop, 96 & 96A, Princes Street, Edinburgh 2
There's no date but those hair styles suggest, what, the early 1960s? Maybe one of you can pinpoint the time period.
It's a bit different from the catalogues I have from the 1920s and 1930s in that this catalogue sells, in addition to women's clothing and men's Highland Dress, a large number of touristy gift items such as tartan-clad dolls, keyrings, framed scenic photos of iconic Scottish views, ceramic Scottie dogs, and even a Viewmaster with "reels" of colour slides of Scottish scenes.(That should suggest a date, I would think.)
I was too lazy to scan the pages so here are a couple fuzzy photos snapped with my I-pod. Maybe later I'll do proper scans and replace these.
Here are "Highland Days" with nice Day Dress. Note the brown brogues!
And Evening Dress. Note the long hair sporrans rather than the usual Evening Dress sporrans, and the Prince Charlie worn with a red waistcoat (and Oatmeal hose!)
Here's a fuzzy closeup of the sporrans illustrated
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
Bookmarks