#tartan

[nyc-looks]

Kooly, 33

“I’m wearing Ralph Lauren blazer, 90s paisley print button down, Vivienne Westwood tartan pants, Gucci Adidas shoes, Gucci socks, and Gucci Adidas black leather gloves.”

Sep 5, 2024 ∙ Upper East Side

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Aziraphale from Good Omens appeared in front of me in a tartan dress. He said, “Sometimes it takes more than a snap of your fingers to perform a miracle,” refused to elaborate and walked away. 

[noneorother]

There is no universe where you can convince me that Mr.Brown is not in love with Aziraphale.

Brown sits across from Aziraphale as soon as he sees him alone in the pub, and gets shooed away by a smug Crowley dressed like this.

Then he decides to go to a Meeting/Ball where almost everyone has a date, alone. And when his new outfit is revealed it is this:

Including the little hair swoosh! And the matching tartan vest. Upturned lapels on the jacket! People, he's wearing a turtleneck and a tartan vest. I think we need to find this man somebody to love before it's too late.

[gleafer]

IT’S MERMAY AND HALFWAY DONE!

Have a Little MerFlag Means Omens fever dream because that’s all I got to give at the moment!

[ghw-archive]

Young man wearing "Gay Power" button, 1969, Diana Davies

[thurstongrey]

[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

[thegikitiki]

Very Plaid Living Room Decor, 1972

[thesixthduke]

[pikmin-applebloom-art]

A textile-inspired tribute to Palestine, Turtle Island, Èire, Alba, and Korea.

Palestine should be free from the IOF.

I used Korean embroidery, Celtic Tartans, Turtle Island beadwork, and kufiya patterns of Palestinian origin as my muses. I limited the palette to colors used in the Palestinian Flag.

I decided to make this while abstaining from drawing characters.

[nuzzle]

『KANSAI COLLECTION 2024 AUTUMN＆WINTER 』 Haruka Shimazaki ©️ Model Press

[suburbanswirl]

Tartan wool jacket by Venus and over the knee boots by Franco Sarto.

[hollyjumper]

scottish beauty

[noneorother]

I broke down the hilarious amount of "Aziraphale tartans" so you don't have to.

I've been slowly going bonkers collecting the amount of times members of the cast/creators and fans of Good Omens over the years have referred to various things as "Aziraphale's tartan". Even on merchandise, I've seen wildly varying opinons about what pattern Aziraphale's tartan actually is. Your resident graphic designer has decided to sit down and just do the damned thing*. Exhibit A) Tartan Origin

Sarah Arnett posted this image to her instagram in 2019, having created "Heaven's dress tartan for the character Aziraphale". However, the only time I've actually seen this pattern used in good omens is in the season 2 announcement poster made by Mickey, and maybe on a pair of socks Aziraphale wears in season 1, (but I'm not convinced).

So here's what that looks like. Note I've rotated the original pattern 90 degrees clockwise in my final pattern (far right) for reasons that will become clear shortly.

Exhibit B) Aziraphale's Bowtie, Thermos, Notebook etc.

This is the tartan that Aziraphale actually wears for most of seasons 1 & 2.** It's a recoloured version of the Exhibit A), and has been rotated 90 degrees on it's bowtie application so that the darker bars run vertical, and not horizontal. The problem is, while the direction of the pattern on his accessories doesn't change, it does on the bowtie. You can see examples of the tartan going right OR left in both season 1 and 2.

Exhibit C) Aziraphale's Brown Bowtie...

This Tartan isn't just a trick of the light. For the first park bench scene in season 1, Aziraphale is wearing a version of his regular bowtie, recoloured in brown and rotated 90 degrees, so that it fits with the direction of the original Exhibit A) Tartan, but not with the direction of the tartan on his Exhibit B) regular bowties. This bowtie was made special, from cloth cut in the opposite direction.

Exhibit D) Aziraphale's Magical Cravat!

Now this is where it starts to get interesting! I haven't seen many people discuss Aziraphale's magician disguise from season 1, but his cravat actually has both Exhibit B) and Exhibit C) tartans to create a contrasting double sided tartan: the outward facing brown, and the hidden, inward facing blue (according to costumer, because of lack of enough brown).

Exhibit E) Saraqael's and Muriel's Tartan

Don't be fooled, Saraqael's and Muriel's tartan may look similar in colour to Aziraphale's, but when you pick it apart, it's got inverse colours, and mildly squished horizontal striping. If you note the orange boxes in each picture, you can see the ratio of the blue stripe to the vertical stripes in each tartan is different, while keeping the overall pattern and ratio in each direction the same. Exhibit E) has a square intersection. It's also usually woven much larger. This tartan also introduces a small sliver of hunter green into the beige/blue/purple palette that's been seen so far.

Exhibit F) Gabriel's Tartan Blanket

Like the others, Gabriel's S2E1 blanket is a variation on the original Heaven's Dress Tartan. It's got very squished horizontal striping though, and is woven even larger than the Saraqael Tartan. Most noticeably though, while it has the same grey vertical striping as Exhibit E) it's now got even more green in it, and the purple is gone almost entirely (save one line).

Exhibit F) Have a bonus Crowlee Tartan from the Season 1 body swap miracle that matches none of these.

It's silver silk though. Can I get a wahoo....?

__________________________________________ *Disclaimer: I am not Scottish, and definitely not an expert in tartan, just a tired graphic designer. If you want tartan expertise, you can go here (although I don't really agree with what they say about the main colour pattern) https://livebloggingmydescentintomadness.tumblr.com/post/189300035060/a-discourse-on-tartan

**In order to deduce colours, I've used high quality BTS footage or photography in neutral lighting whenever possible. Especially in season 2, colour grading and post processing of the final show make colour matching between scenes and/or seasons impossible.

[celticculture]