Scottish Football Association saltire logo kilt

[Mike_Oettle]

Don’t know why you guys don’t like the Saltire tartan. I would love to own a kilt like the one Hamish is modelling.
I even designed a variant of it in Jamaican colours – it would be great to see a bunch of Jamaicans (bob-sledders, perhaps) wearing the yellow saltire on green and black in kilt form.
Regards,
Mike

[piperdbh]

Don’t know why you guys don’t like the Saltire tartan.

I don't like making clothing from a flag, or from fabric woven to pleat to resemble a flag, although I do admire the creativity someone had in order to design the process.

[Jock Scot]

--------- awful! You can choose any word you like, for the first word.

[cruiser348]

Ok now the kilt Hamish is shown wearing I would gladly have a version of for myself. Now, that being said the other kilt with the shall we say bold X on the front is to put it mildly not my style. I would be interested in seeing how the back was done. Does the X continue through the pleats or is it just a solid color back panel.

[CMcG]

Ok now the kilt Hamish is shown wearing I would gladly have a version of for myself. Now, that being said the other kilt with the shall we say bold X on the front is to put it mildly not my style. I would be interested in seeing how the back was done. Does the X continue through the pleats or is it just a solid color back panel.

I believe the front of Hamish's is tartan but I can't seem to find and image of the back of the Slanj Saltire kilt.

[Jimmy]

It would appear from the number of replies (although only a limited number) that its thumbs down for this kilt, there is another one I saw in Dublin and it was a solid black with a small SFA crest beneath the kilt pin, it looked good but I can't seem to get a picture of it, I think Slanj have the rights to sell the SFA kilts, perhaps I'm wrong.

Should I contact the SFA and find out how the saltire kilt sells, maybe I should mention that the kilt experts on X-Marks have mixed views on this kilt. It would be interesting to find this out either from the SFA or Slanj and I wonder if they are aware of this forum and the expertise within it?

[OC Richard]

To me both sorts of kilts look strange (the sort that's basically a saltire flag made into a kilt, and the sort which creates a saltire on your bum) because they're at odds with the way kilts traditionally have been: having a pattern that's horizonally & vertically oriented.

The kilts made out of any flag leave me cold, be it the Welsh flag, Union Jack, Cross of St George, or what have you.

Though there was a cool Japanese guy at one of our Games wearing The Kilt Of The Rising Sun (as he called it) which was, I must admit, very striking. (A white kilt with a large red circle appliqued on the front apron.)

[Highlander31]

I don't particularly care for kilts that are designed to look like flags. A shirt with a flag on it is one thing, however, sitting on a country's national emblem is quite another (IMHO.)