Tartan Gift Shop c1960 catalogue

[M. A. C. Newsome]

My wife knit this Cardigan for me in a pattern she created after watching the final Harry Potter film and seeing Neville in a similar sweater.



Someone asked her how much she would charge to make one; I don't recall the precise answer but I believe it was near $600. There are nearly 3000 yards of yarn in the thing and it took her months to complete.

[Lime]

Both of mine are slipovers rather than jumpers. One came from a knitters' co-operative in Plockton for considerably less than £250.00... I felt very guilty and ran away quickly giggling like a school girl! The other was from Scotweb http://www.scotweb.co.uk/products/fair-isle-slipover/ which came in at just less than £250.00; I believe it is frameknit. I love both dearly and they are absolutely worth the price: any of the fashion Fairisles I've seen just can't hold a candle to them. From time to time I get "the nod" from those in "the know".

[creagdhubh]

Both of mine are slipovers rather than jumpers. One came from a knitters' co-operative in Plockton for considerably less than £250.00... I felt very guilty and ran away quickly giggling like a school girl! The other was from Scotweb http://www.scotweb.co.uk/products/fair-isle-slipover/ which came in at just less than £250.00; I believe it is frameknit. I love both dearly and they are absolutely worth the price: any of the fashion Fairisles I've seen just can't hold a candle to them. From time to time I get "the nod" from those in "the know".

Very smart slipovers, Lime! I love the colour choices. Price isn't too bad either, considering how much time and effort goes into making them.

[piperdbh]

Someone asked her how much she would charge to make one; I don't recall the precise answer but I believe it was near $600. There are nearly 3000 yards of yarn in the thing and it took her months to complete.

Just like anything handmade, especially handmade by an expert, the price quoted is often below the true value of an item, but very few customers are willing (or able) to pay it. Yet another reason to marry a knitter!

[David Thorpe]

Yet another reason to marry a knitter!

Or learn to do it yourself. My brother is becoming quite good at it - hose and bonnets anyway. He has yet to advance to sweaters/jumpers.

[Lime]

Very smart slipovers, Lime! I love the colour choices.

Aye, it's one of those where it looks "brown" or "blue" from a distance but up close it is a veritable rainbow.

[Kennedy]

I ordered a kilt skirt back in 72 or 73. I sent for a few catalogs from Scotland, and I think this is one that I actually had. (I very much doubt that I still have it.) I think that the styles look 60s. However, color photos are far more expensive to print, so I am think that this catalog is from a later time period. I think that the pictures may have actually been taken in the earlier time period and were colorized for later catalogs. A well cut kilt, a fine suit jacket, and quality brogues are never out of date, so why would a good Scot pay more people to model the same clothing when you can just colorize the original?

[creagdhubh]

I ordered a kilt skirt back in 72 or 73.

Do you mean a kilt or a kilted skirt? These are two very different things.

[Dixiecat]

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.

(trimmed content)

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!)

What I find interesting is that the piper seems to be wearing RCAF tartan.

[Downunder Kilt]

What I find interesting is that the piper seems to be wearing RCAF tartan.

My impression that it was Anderson, possibly in ancient colours.