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Love those photos, Nathan. At least you had a sealskin sporran! 
Slainte,
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 Originally Posted by creagdhubh
Love those photos, Nathan. At least you had a sealskin sporran!
Slainte,
True but I only had the evening sgian dubh. I had silver buttons on my daywear tweed and wore a three button waist coat with it that day. Oh well, you live and you learn.
What tartan were you wearing back then? It doesn't look like MacPherson to me! 
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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Originally Posted by Nathan
True but I only had the evening sgian dubh. I had silver buttons on my daywear tweed and wore a three button waist coat with it that day. Oh well, you live and you learn.
What tartan were you wearing back then? It doesn't look like MacPherson to me!
Aye Nathan, that is definitely true...we live and learn.
I'm wearing the Gow Hunting tartan in modern colours from Strathmore. It's the only kilt that I have ever owned that was not of a Macpherson sett. It's also the only kilt that I have ever owned that was made from 13 ounce, medium-weight material. Even though I had a kilt in the Macpherson Hunting tartan at the time, my mother, who's surname is Smith (Gow originally; her ancestors emigrated from Perthshire near Dunkeld and anglicised Gow to Smith upon their arrival at Ellis Island), insisted I wear that particular tartan, since she has always adored the colours. So, what else could I do? It's not like I had a choice in the matter!
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Kilt and sleeves too short creagdhubh? This was perfectly normal when and where I grew up. Lads invariably grew out of their clothes which was why they were often too large when originally purchased. "He'll grow into it" being the justification.
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that. - RB
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Kilt and sleeves too short creagdhubh? This was perfectly normal when and where I grew up. Lads invariably grew out of their clothes which was why they were often too large when originally purchased. "He'll grow into it" being the justification.
Quite! Thinking back on it, that's more than likely what my parent's were thinking! Honestly at the time, I didn't really pay much attention to those wee details. At least not as much as I do now.
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Taken at the Clan Macpherson AGM in Dearborn, MI back in 1988? I think.
I'm the one that looks like an accountant from the waist up.
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Taken at the Clan Macpherson AGM in Dearborn, MI back in 1988? I think.
I'm the one that looks like an accountant from the waist up.
Well done, cousin!
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This may have been the first time I wore a man's full size kilt. It is my older brother's in the Ancient Buchanan. It wasn't long after this that I had my own. This was taken in the early 1970's.
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