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    An interesting aside, PCE Stuart was a military tartan, the tartan of the 72nd Highlanders.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/72nd_R...wn_Highlanders

    They're one of several Highland regiments to lose their Highland Dress in 1809, only to have it partially restored later. With the 72nd Highlanders it meant trews in PCE Stuart tartan (only the pipers being kilted). In 1881 this military tartan was lost, continuing only in the rear drone ribbon of the pipers of the 1st Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders, then later the rear drone ribbon of the pipers of The Queens Own Highlanders.

    Numerous illustrations incorrectly show the 72nd Highlanders wearing Royal Stewart tartan, and likewise the Wikipedia article linked to incorrectly gives their tartan as Royal Stewart.
    Last edited by OC Richard; 17th May 13 at 08:20 PM.
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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    I feel for you, Richard, but I just can't quite reach you.
    Look at it the other way... I'm sure you and the band will do it proud!

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    In the big scheme of things it's a smart thing for a band to do. We got 20-odd kilts for what works out to around $100 each, well-made hand-sewn 8-yard kilts in 13oz tartan, in excellent condition. (Luckily the band seems to have not worn kilt pins!) But beggars can't be choosers and you end up with a tartan your band wouldn't have picked for itself. (I had even designed a tartan for the band and we were looking into having it woven.)

    Looks like only two or three of us will have to get new kilts made. Two or three kilts at full new-kilt price, when averaged into our total outlay for kilts, still puts us far ahead of the game. Luckily HOE stocks that tartan so the turnaround is relatively quick.

    Since I'm the only guy in the band that's made a kilt, and has long experience moving buckles etc, I find my house now full of kilts awaiting alteration.
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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    So just to clarify, who had to pay for this kilt you or the band? If it's the band, you really didn't have to buy a kilt you didn't like...
    Natan Easbaig Mac Dhòmhnaill, FSA Scot
    Past High Commissioner, Clan Donald Canada
    “Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we, in dreams, behold the Hebrides.” - The Canadian Boat Song.

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    I had to pay the downpayment. Hopefully the band will pick up part or all of the cost eventually, and it will become just one of the band's kilts.

    Actually with the last band I played in I ended up buying my own kilt, because I really didn't like the fit of the kilt they gave me (too big in the waist and too short). It was a tartan I really like, so much so that I ended up getting matching full tartan hose made.
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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