MOD Kilt Top Band Color

[OC Richard]

Perhaps they thought, "Why not. We wear our tunic over our kilts so no one will ever see it. .

Except in Shirtsleeve Order!!





The implication seems to be that the grass-green binding is inferior in appearance to binding cut from kilting fabric. To me, it's the opposite: I think the green binding looks much BETTER than tartan binding. And it's more traditional to boot.

For one thing, tartan binding only matches up with the kilt's tartan in the front (except in rare cases). In the back it looks awful. The grass-green military binding looks perfect all over.

[creagdhubh]

Great information, Richard!

[figheadair]

I asked the font of all knowledge - Bob Martin, who reminded me that mid-late C19th military kilts were bound with a fine black shellacked linen and that the green bais was a C20th adoption.