Scottish Fashion Council frowns on tartan

[Rex_Tremende]

Hey now! What we now consider national costume was once the fashion of the day. Object to the fashion industry with all its breathlessness, if you like, but everything you buy to put on your body had to be designed by somebody.

As for the fashion council of Scotland whining that they're not getting noticed, well then maybe they should design more noteworthy clothes.

Regards,
Rex.

[RockyR]

As for the fashion council of Scotland whining that they're not getting noticed, well then maybe they should design more noteworthy clothes.

Here here. Maybe if they DID use tartan (OR TWEED) but with a twist, they'd have somethng worth praise.

[ThistleDown]

Here here. Maybe if they DID use tartan (OR TWEED) but with a twist, they'd have somethng worth praise.

"...whenever you get these events (Scotland Week in New York) happening abroad they still seem to be about tartans and kilts, as opposed to the reality of Scotland's designers who buyers are all screaming for."

Scotland does have a vibrant design industry and there is great talent in it. In another thread on XMTS we have seen some of the new designs using tartan now out there for women, and "buyers are all screaming" for these. What they are really whining about is that they are sometimes and in some places upstaged by tradition in the form of kilts. But in their complaint they are focusing on spectacles such as Scotland Week in New York, instead of turning their attention to promoting Scottish design at home, in Paris, Rome, Moscow and Dublin and, at other times in the year than Scotland Week, in New York.

[RockyR]

My guess is that they get "tired" of hearing certain things the same way we do. After years wearing a kilt, I STILLL get the 2 questions...

"Where are your bagpipes / Are you a bagpiper?" OR "What are you wearing under your kilt?"

I IMAGINE they get the same kind of thing... "Your're a Scottish Fashion show? Where are the kilts / Tartans / Tweeds?" People try to put them in the "tartan box" and assume that tey SHOULD have tartans b/c they are from Scotland.

They probably get sick of being asked and therefore want to push HARD in the OPPOSITE direction AWAY from kilts / tartan. After all, they're "fashion people" who want to be seen as different and fresh and new. They're trying to break tried and true "associations" (i.e. Scotland = Tartan) in the general public's head... NOT an easy thing to do.

Either way, I'M still wearing tartan whether it's in style or not.