Hodden Grey Kilt fabric

**Arnot** · 7th December 17, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by dakuda

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Would anyone have a small swatch left over to back a Toronto Scottish cap badge ?? ( approximately 6 inches square ).

thanks, Rory

Just wondered if you ever got your swatch.

**dakuda** · 8th December 17, 05:45 AM

No, never did get my swatch.

thanks, Rory

**Arnot** · 8th December 17, 05:56 AM

Originally Posted by dakuda

No, never did get my swatch.

thanks, Rory

Okay. PM your address to me and I'll get a swatch sent out to you.

**Arnot** · 22nd December 17, 07:55 AM

I have worn my kilt once before, but only had some photos taken today. It was after lunch, so I got a few wrinkles from sitting (they seem to show up more on solid-colored kilts). As I have said before, I did the fringe in the same color. I didn't want to misrepresent myself by doing blue fringe like the regiments. I did use black buckles, though, like are used for some of the regimental kilts. Anyway, here it is...

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**IsaacW** · 22nd December 17, 08:06 AM

Very nice!

**dakuda** · 22nd December 17, 10:23 AM

Fine looking kilt Troy, thanks again for the swatch.

Rory MacDougall

**Liam** · 22nd December 17, 07:21 PM

Great looking kilt! I like what looks like an RCAF sweater as well.

**Arnot** · 23rd December 17, 01:46 AM

Thanks very much, Gents. As to the sweater, I bought it at the US Military Clothing Sales store (I can shop there as a retiree) at RAF Lakenheath here in the UK. The USAF might actually get their sweaters from the same source as the RCAF, though. I'm an Army guy as it happens. I didn't tell them when I bought the sweater.

**OC Richard** · 23rd December 17, 04:06 AM

That RAF blue is very nice and goes with the Hodden Grey perfectly.

I have to share an old story about that blue.

I'm an artist, and back in the late 1970s/early 1980s I started hand-painting bass drums for several of the pipe bands around here.

I tried as much as possible to make the design and colours go with the band's kit.

There was one band who wore an Ancient tartan, with Ancient blue and green and the orange-ish red. I designed their bass drum logo using those colours. I ran out of time so I did the black line-work and a guy in their band filled in the colours.

He changed the blue to a blue that didn't go with their kilts at all! I asked him "why did you change the blue?"

He looked at me like I was crazy, and said "That's ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE BLUE."

Evidently in his mind that was that. (The band was an American band that had no connexion to the RCAF whatsoever.)