Possibly the World's ugliest Tartan

[Coemgen]

I dunno. I kinda like it. Actually, I knida like all of these tartans.

I'm thinking a kilt in the Victoria tartan, with a neon green t-shirt under an unbuttoned aloha shirt, and a Modern Buchanan tie, perhaps with Loud MacLeod hose.

(The scary thing is, I'd probably wear an outfit like that )

[JRB]

Hmm......No sir, I don't like it.

[AtagahiKC]

I'm not fond of any of the official American tartans. At the risk of sounding unpatriotic, red white and blue make for a very boring tartan.

However, I'm inclined to agree that the Victoria, BC tartan may be slightly worse.

Grant: I can't quite picture you in a tartan thong. No offense, but I'd like to keep my mind's eye safe from that mental picture. But if you are going to wear a tartan thong, perhaps another tartan would make you feel, well, tartier?

[Pleater]

It is a case of using all the wrong colours for all the right reasons.

Selecting a handful of unconnected colours because each one is somehow thought to connect to the state, country or region, and then just putting them together with no regard for the colours being harmonious, the amounts of each colour making a balanced overall effect, and making the stripes and bands outside the normal rules of tartans - it is just never going to work.

I really am sufficiently sensitive to colours to feel ill, or experience a physical shock if I come across a 'bad' combination suddenly.

I have tried to find out why some patterns and colours feel good and others bad, but never got a sensible explaination.

Anne the Pleater

[Rex_Tremende]

I have tried to find out why some patterns and colours feel good and others bad, but never got a sensible explanation.

Your comment prompted me to do a search on the term "science of aesthetics." Coincidentally, the first result that Google served up was from The Tartan, Carnegie Mellon's student newspaper. It doesn't quite answer your question, but apparently a lot of others are asking the same thing.

Regards,
Rex.

[Raptor]

Yep, the kindest I can be here is "ordinary". Oh who am I kidding? It's an abomination.

[CameronTaylor]

That's a tragic mess is what. The description of what the colors represent is odd for leaving out the vast forests that surround the city but none of the colors I see even come close to reflecting their description.
For that to represent the beautiful city that Victoria is .... well ... sad.
... and ugly.
....
Mac Bumblebee is just very bright (in a highway sign sort of way, or maybe a school bus ...)


CT - clan mc hurl

[Macman]

Well, as someone born and raised and living in Victoria, and who has seen this very swatch of tartan in the flesh, I have to say that a kilt in that tartan is something that I will never wear. I'll stick to the British Columbia or Maple Leaf as my district tartan.
Steve, do you know if the tartan has been officially recognized by the City of Victoria?

[auld argonian]

Well, as someone born and raised and living in Victoria, and who has seen this very swatch of tartan in the flesh, I have to say that a kilt in that tartan is something that I will never wear. I'll stick to the British Columbia or Maple Leaf as my district tartan.
Steve, do you know if the tartan has been officially recognized by the City of Victoria?

...and if it hasn't where do we e-mail to strongly recommend that they rethink the whole thing? I realize that a lot of us aren't Vancouverians or even Canadian but for the love of God....

Best

AA

[Colin]

...and if it hasn't where do we e-mail to strongly recommend that they rethink the whole thing? I realize that a lot of us aren't Vancouverians or even Canadian but for the love of God....

Best

AA

Vancouverites and Victorians not Vancouverians

That's a bad tartan, but I can think of a few I have seen in kilts (here and in person) that I would never wear. I'm not even that found of the BC tartan. Too bright for my tastes.