Tartan identification

**RayMc** · 13th October 13, 10:22 AM

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Ok, here goes. Could anyone possibly id or narrow down what the tartan might be on the guy in the background in this photo? Gent in the front is wearing Chattan, of which I also own one.

Thanks in advance...

**TheOfficialBren** · 13th October 13, 10:54 AM

Menzies?

That's my guess.

**Jock Scot** · 13th October 13, 10:59 AM

Looks like it might be, Macpherson. It looks like the bash might also be being held in a certain ballroom in the Newtonmore area(?), which may help with the tartan identification a tad. On the other hand-------------------

**TheOfficialBren** · 13th October 13, 12:28 PM

Of course! MacPherson (Hunting?).

I believe that this is one of Kyle's photos.

**Pipersson** · 13th October 13, 12:55 PM

Clan Chattan I guess...

**MacLowlife** · 13th October 13, 04:58 PM

Pretty sure the one in the back is MacPherson- black and white with a distinctive garnet double line and a yellow line.

RayMac, why not google MacPherson tartan or MacPherson dress tartan and see if that is what you are looking for/ at...

**Pipersson** · 13th October 13, 06:14 PM

Oh...didn't see he meant the guy in the background...

**ctbuchanan** · 14th October 13, 09:55 AM

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...89#post1074189

**figheadair** · 14th October 13, 10:11 AM

And this is not in the Tartan Thread because.....?

**creagdhubh** · 21st October 13, 10:57 AM

The chap in the foreground is my friend and cousin, Bruce Macpherson of London and I actually took the photo as well. It was taken at our annual Clan Macpherson Gathering and Rally in Badenoch (spot on, Jock!). Bruce is wearing a kilt in the Chattan tartan in a modern colour scheme. The kilt is actually quite old and was passed down to him by his father Sandy (see a photo of Sandy and I below).

The chap in the background is John Macpherson of Montrose and he is wearing the Dress Macpherson tartan in the modern colour scheme and with double lines in magenta, as opposed to double lines in scarlet, which is another (older) variant of this particular tartan. I much prefer the latter, as that is what many of the old Macpherson Chiefs wore during the late 19th-century, to include "Old Cluny."

Dress Macpherson with the double magenta lines.