Red, White & Blue Kilts?

[OC Richard]

My go to tartan for red white and blue is a House of Edgar United Scots American 5 yard casual kilt.

I like this tartan far more than the others shown in this thread. It looks more tartanlike, more clothlike, and less diagrammatic or computer-graphic.

The Allen Brothers invented the "tartan as heraldry" approach to tartan design. I hate their ugly designs, and I dislike most of the modern designs which follow their approach.

It's tough to come up with a nice tartan when you start out with goals that have nothing to do with tartan design, limiting yourself to colours which come from without traditional tartan design. I know; I've tried my hand at it myself! Trying to come up with a decent "Cornish tartan" using mostly white, black, and yellow.

So it's not surprising that most of these red/white/blue tartan don't look very much like tartans. Ditto the "Irish County Crest" tartans which limit themselves to the untartanlike and rather garish colours which appear on various crests- the Allen Brothers approach to a "t".

This one is fairly nice, American National



Barb T posted this photo a while back... this tartan is lovely, Scottish American.



Were I to need a "red white and blue" kilt I'd probably go with this one, Scotland 2000