Kilties in the Great War

[CEF]

Thanks guys for the welcome, I shall go and make myself known in the Newbie area
Regards
Cef

[thescot]

Thanks for the terrific pictures. My grandfather was in the US Army Engineers in France during those days, and he spoke of the Scots and their kilts.

[macwilkin]

Thanks guys for the welcome, I shall go and make myself known in the Newbie area
Regards
Cef

CEF=Canadian Expeditionary Force?

Cheers,

Todd

[CEF]

Gordon Highlanders resting

[macwilkin]

I know I've posted it before, but its always worth seeing again:

http://www.basilrathbone.net/biography/kilt.jpg

Sherlock Holmes, aka Basil Rathbone, in the Liverpool Scottish during WWI.

Cheers,

Todd

[CEF]

I think the image needs to be bigger.
Can anyone tell me how delete ?

[freddie]

I think the image needs to be bigger.
Can anyone tell me how delete ?

I've seen photos of Gordons in the Great War before and like this one the tartan doesn't seem to be the usual Gordon tartan. There doesn't seem to be evidence of the yellow line and also the sett doesn't seem to be normal either (Black Watch or Govenrment tartan). Can anyone throw any light on this ?

[freddie]

I know I've posted it before, but its always worth seeing again:

http://www.basilrathbone.net/biography/kilt.jpg

Sherlock Holmes, aka Basil Rathbone, in the Liverpool Scottish during WWI.

Cheers,

Todd

Many of the photos from this period show soldiers NOT wearing a sporran. I wonder why ?

[auld argonian]

Re how colors show up in old photographs...

...there is the possibility that some of the photos were taken with films that were orthochromatic rather than the panchromatic emulsion black and white films that we are familiar with today. Ortho renders the grey scale equivalent of certain colors lighter than we're usually used to seeing. Blues, for example, are renderred lighter in color...that's one of the reasons why skies in older photos look blank instead of cloudy. There was, at one time, some discussion of whether or not clouds actually could be photographed.

So maybe the relationships between colors in some of the tartans that we're seeing look different because of the different sensitivity of the film used.

I knew that that History of Photography class was going to pay off some day!

Best

AA

[freddie]

And another,
note the guy on the left and the lengh of his kilt.
In some cases braces (Suspenders) were worn also.

Chef, thanks for the advice as you can see I got there !

Regards
Cef

I think I read somewhere that all the kilts at this time were made to the same length, so shorter guys had to wear their kilts higher on their waists.