Black Watch? Yay or Nay

[Grizzled Ian]

I wonder if the notion that it is an old kilt came about through a combination of some or all of these ingredients:
* unfamiliarity with our terminology;
* imprecise thinking; and
* a 'word of mouth/Chinese whispers' process.
"I have an ancient Black Watch kilt" is very easy to misinterpret and thereafter misrepresent.

[HarveyH]

"I have an ancient Black Watch kilt" is very easy to misinterpret and thereafter misrepresent.

Oh Dear, we are back to taxonomy ... I wish firms would avoid the ambiguity and by not putting the colours first except where it is part of the tartan name: Black Watch in Ancient Colours.