#TARTAN KILTS

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant presenting at the EE BAFTA Film Awards - February 2024

for Tennant Tuesday (or whatever day this post finds you)

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Hard tartan kilt decorated with silk rosettes and matching pink silk ribbon ties, part of a man's kilt suit.

Place of origin: Great Britain, United Kingdom, Northern Europe

Date: ca. 1820

Medium: Tartan, silk, cotton

[celticculture]

[bantarleton]

Digging these eighteenth-century highlander reenactors from an event in Georgia earlier this year. Not all perfect (how many reenactors can claim they are anyway?) but overall better fare than Hollywood's "big beards and open shirts and drab tartans."

[scotianostra]

Cool looking older guy at the bus stop opposite my flat in Lauriston Place, the box carries a small set of bagpipes.

My friend Allan informs me it's

'Jamie MacDonald Reid, a bit of a legend when it comes to Gaelic culture and shared a room with David Bowie when he was in Edinburgh!'

[okckent]

Kilt of the day

[princessanneftw]

Sir Tim Laurence’s trousers seem to be the Balmoral tartan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Source: @cosmo-macaroon’s eagle eyes

[britanniabay]

A few more glimpses from the Royal Edinburgh Tattoo.

(Courtesy of veryamateurish).

[vox-anglosphere]

A Scottish pipe band leads the way to the Highland Games in Ballater

[thesixthduke]

[fashionsfromhistory]

Kilt Ensemble

Graingar & Campbell of George Street, Edinburgh

c.1862

Royal Ontario Museum (Object number: 2020.64.1-6)

[cpahlow]

[celticculture]

[bantarleton]

Shoutout to Fort Ticonderoga for, among many other things, their brilliant Seven Years War highlander impressions.

[drzewobojczyni]

This is the perfect male outfit. You may not like it, but this is what peak drip looks like

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[tanuki-kimono]

When hakama meets kilt, rad fashion crossover I didn’t know I needed!