HERE'S a TREAT

[OC Richard]

How about this??



There's a nice contrast between the pattern of the jacket and the plain kilt... but let's face it, it's hideous.

[Jock Scot]

OCR.

Using as much of my British skill at under-statement as I can muster, the outfit is pretty grim.

[MNlad]

Does that kit include a clown car?

[OC Richard]

Using as much of my British skill at under-statement as I can muster, the outfit is pretty grim.

It's simply the strangest photo I've ever seen of Highland Dress, made the stranger because everything is "real" Made In Scotland quality stuff, but wowza! And Edinburgh Castle in the background! And that hair!

I just now noticed something I hadn't: he's wearing an Isle of Skye fly plaid, as if there weren't enough clashing things already.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

How about this??



There's a nice contrast between the pattern of the jacket and the plain kilt... but let's face it, it's hideous.

I think that outfit actually comes from Kinloch Anderson! At least the doublet does. I saw that same doublet on display at the Tartan Day event at Ellis Island in 2011. It's a silk Montrose doublet in the Ramsay tartan.

The Celebration of Tartan exhibit was hosted by the Clan Currie Society and this particular outfit I am fairly certain was put on loan to them by Kinloch Anderson. However, the outfit on display was with a black kilt, not a putple one, and did not include hose or fly plaid.

But I feel certain this must be the same doublet. Unless there are two silk Ramsay tartan Montrose doublets floating about out there...

[creagdhubh]

Here's another treat from Bookster! A much smarter looking (check) tweed to my eye than the first one. Pity it's way too small for me.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EXCEPTIONAL-...-/321086368813

[MNlad]

That one caught my eye as well. Alas, I too would find it a tight fit—a very, very tight fit. Damn!

[OC Richard]

Odd that they have a poster from a Highlander movie, showing a ridiculous costume, as part of an Ellis Island exhibit. The whole thing is a bit strange, seeming to suggest that an immigrant would step off the boat at Ellis Island dressed in barbarian furs, or wearing a silk tartan Montrose jacket and lace jabot.

I do like that 19th century-looking tartan dress, which looks like something an immigrant might actually have worn.

[creagdhubh]

Odd that they have a poster from a Highlander movie, showing a ridiculous costume, as part of an Ellis Island exhibit. The whole thing is a bit strange, seeming to suggest that an immigrant would step off the boat at Ellis Island dressed in barbarian furs, or wearing a silk tartan Montrose jacket and lace jabot.

I do like that 19th century-looking tartan dress, which looks like something an immigrant might actually have worn.

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[M. A. C. Newsome]

Odd that they have a poster from a Highlander movie, showing a ridiculous costume, as part of an Ellis Island exhibit. The whole thing is a bit strange, seeming to suggest that an immigrant would step off the boat at Ellis Island dressed in barbarian furs, or wearing a silk tartan Montrose jacket and lace jabot.

I do like that 19th century-looking tartan dress, which looks like something an immigrant might actually have worn.

The exhibit was not about immigration to Ellis Island. The exhibit was called "A Celebration of Tartan" and it happened to be on Ellis Island as part of the Tartan Day events there. There were examples of tartan both historic and modern on hand. The educational part of the exhibit featured a number of tall free standing display boards giving the story of tartan, and on the back of each of these boards was a photograph of some famous celebrity in tartan; either in a film, or otherwise. So the Highlander scene there was in this context. There were also photos of Sean Connery, Mel Gibson from Braveheart, various Royalty, and so forth. There were also some larger than life renderings of the MacLeay figures. Quite a nice exhibit all in all.