Scottish Wildcat first kilt

**Barb T** · 20th March 15, 06:41 AM

Thought you all might like to see the first kilt in the Scottish Wildcat tartan. It's for our tartan designer, McMurdo, and it just happened that he and my husband are almost the same size, so I had him model it for all y'all with the kit he had on hand. The kilt is now packed up and on its way to McMurdo!

As was discussed at length in another thread (http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...71/index4.html), the color of the tartan in photos is strongly influenced by the color temperature of the illumination. The first three pictures below were taken with illumination from a north-facing window. The last one with the pleats splayed was taken only a few feet away but with room lighting.

**IsaacW** · 20th March 15, 06:47 AM

Fabulous!!! And lucky you, Glen!

**tulloch** · 20th March 15, 08:00 AM

Nice! Thanks for the pictures.

**MNlad** · 20th March 15, 10:58 AM

Very striking. Well done, Barb.

**Alan H** · 20th March 15, 12:01 PM

This makes me so happy, to see the whole project come to fruition... Thanks, Barb!

**tundramanq** · 20th March 15, 02:07 PM

Alan, Please call Rocky 800.368.8633 Thanks Chuck Holm

**mookien** · 20th March 15, 04:57 PM

Elegant-looking kilt, and outfit for that matter. Nice pics and backgrounds. You have a great model. Do you pay him union wages?

**Destin_scot** · 20th March 15, 05:50 PM

Very nice....

Love the pleat to the horizontal stripes, (that is what it's called isn't it?)

**Barb T** · 21st March 15, 06:29 AM

Well, no, you can't pleat to a horizontal stripe. In pleating to the stripe, the tartan element chosen is the same in all pleats and is oriented vertically, not horizontally. Traditionally, pleating to the stripe has a prominent stripe down the center of the pleat. In the case of the Wildcat, I chose the solid gray (no central stripe - it is essentially its own wide stripe) - so you could say it's pleated to the solid gray vertical stripe, if you want.