The Solid Coloured Kilt

[CMcG]

[OC Richard]

What a great thread! I'm a "visual guy" and I love seeing a lot of photos like this, for my "eye" to adjust to accepting self-coloured kilts as normal.

I really like the "windowpane" outfits people have shown us.

Here are some more vintage photos.

This is very interesting, a stripe along the selvedge:



This might be a very dark tartan, it's hard to see:



Not really self-coloured but interesting:



And in the Army, the London Scottish:





And the 21st Battalion from Canada:

[M. A. C. Newsome]

What a great thread! I'm a "visual guy" and I love seeing a lot of photos like this, for my "eye" to adjust to accepting self-coloured kilts as normal.

I really like the "windowpane" outfits people have shown us.

Here are some more vintage photos.

This is very interesting, a stripe along the selvedge:

A dominant horizontal stripe along the bottom of an otherwise solid colored kilt was not all that uncommon at one time. We have a matching kilt and jacket for a small boy in the museum that is a solid brown (similar in color to the London Scottish kilts, actually), with a darker brown stripe about an inch above the selvage of the kilt.

There is a photo that graces the back cover of Bob Martin's All About Your Kilt from the Royal Archives. It shows Queen Victoria's Ghillies at Balmoral, October, 1858. Of the nine men in the photo (all kilted), three are wearing Balmoral tartan, the other six are in solid kilts. Of the six in solid kilts, two have this sort of stripe along the bottom.

This might be a very dark tartan, it's hard to see:

I think you are correct, this is a tartan kilt.

Not really self-coloured but interesting:

This is the Northumberland tartan, aka Shepherd's Check.