Origin and Use of "Dress" Tartans

[Dixiecat]

So to me the dress tartan for arisaig makes perfect sense, especially coming from Queen Vicky

People keep saying this, but no where have I actually found proof of this. I've found more proof of dress tartans being appropriate for white tie formal wear as actual fact, than any substance to the legend of Queen Victoria and white background tartans.

http://www.btinternet.com/~sbishop100/alicky8.jpg

Here's a photo of Queen Victoria with her grandchildren. Her great-grandaughter Alix (later last tsarina of Russia) is wearing a tartan skirt. And, it's the same tartan as her brother (standing behind her) is wearing as a kilt. 1882.

http://www.btinternet.com/~sbishop100/vic41.jpg
A photo of a tartan dress worn by the then Princess Victoria (later Queen) in 1835. Not a dress tartan.

Dixiecat keeps pointing to the fact that she see's women in tartan clothing other than "dress," but I hardly think that this is proof that "dress" tartans were not originally meant for the arisaig.

Nope, you've not read my posts correctly. I only pointed this out ONCE, and it was only an observation of internet images. I never used it as a conclusion of proof that you are.