Catholic School girls - Black Watch skirts

[Mike_Oettle]

The OP called to mind that in Desperate Housewives, some of the girls attend a school where their uniform includes skirts in Dress Gordon tartan.
I am trying to research the use of tartan at South African schools, but it seems most of the tartans in use are for girls’ dresses.
One school in Cape Town has a summer tartan (in green and white) and a winter tartan (a more traditional sett with red in it).
And in Johannesburg, Blairgowrie High School has its own tartan, registered in Edinburgh. But whether it is worn in kilt format, I am unable to say.
In Grahamstown, just up the road from Port Elizabeth, St Andrew’s College has a pipe band and dresses the band members and its army cadets in Graham of Montrose tartan. But most of the time the boys wear grey trousers, just like the boys at most other high schools in South Africa.
I believe there are other school pipe bands in this country, but I have no information ready to hand.
Regards,
Mike

[jhockin]

[Whidbey78]

My wife is an art teacher at a Catholic school. She wears pants...the girls wear pants...guys wear pants...it's basically like every school nowadays. It's on the reservation, and we always voluteer as chaperones for dances, prom. events, etc, etc. Between being different and very traditional they go NUTS over the kilt. I have to appreciate any culture so rooted in tradition while working at the future. They dig the heck out of anything traditional (or even just stemming from tradition, like a Utilikilt-type deal) even if it's not from their own culture. Sometimes I think the future will start on the Rez!

(BTW, a few years back my wife and I went to a Halloween party as a drunken Priest and a Nun. She borrowed the cleric, flask, and habit from the real deal...so, Catholics do have a sense of humor!)

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