Hall Tartan Kilt

[thedanalcantara]

You look absolutely SMASHING!!!! A style and elegance from a bygone era. My compliments!

Ditto on this. A look made for a time more romantic than the present.

[Elf]

The kilt looks great and the whole outfit looks very nice indeed and the sporran looks unusual, any details?

Chris.

I should have not been so rushed in the first posting. Here are some details. The photos were taken at Fort Nisqually Living History Museum in the Chief Trader's 1855 new house (recently restored in 2003). The vest is an 1850 pattern from a friends reprint of a period tailors' manual (name forgotten). It is one I commonly wear at the site. The sporran I made a few years back from of all things a blackpowder shooting bag model with a roundel from Finn in Morro Bay Calif. It and the hose have previously appeared in the DIY subforum. The odd thing out is actually the tartan which was only created and registered in the 1990's.

I was waiting to see if anyone recognized the print of the young Victoria (ca.1836) in the background on the dining room wall. The tea cup is Blue Camilla from spode. Mine is a recent manufacture, but fragments of that pattern have been discovered at a nearby HBC site. The toast to the Queen photo had too much glare however. So much for a whitty idea.

Thank you all for the positive comments.

[Standard]

Is it possible to give a link or information about the pattern for the vest. I'd certainly like to make one of those.

[Alan H]

Hello to a fellow Hall. I also have a Hall tartan kilt, but I box-pleated mine. I also didn't order enough tartan and so I had to cut some corners and I'm afraid that my kilt isn't all that grand. At some point I will probably order another yard and hope that it's from the same dye lot, and finish mine up right.

Yours is MUCH nicer than mine.. Good job.