Kilts and Culture - Amber Waves of Grain tartan

[RockyR]

This is the Brooks Brothers tartan I'm referring to. It was designed by Brian Wilton (prior head of the Scottish Tartan Authority) back in 2012.

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/ta...ails?ref=10652

I've seen it in the wild in their stores on a lot of different items years ago.

[jsrnephdoc]

This is the Brooks Brothers tartan I'm referring to. It was designed by Brian Wilton (prior head of the Scottish Tartan Authority) back in 2012.

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/ta...ails?ref=10652

I've seen it in the wild in their stores on a lot of different items years ago.

WOW! I had NO idea it was such a recent creation.

When I learned to read, 7½ decades ago, one of my favorite pastimes was leafing through my mom's weekly New Yorker issues. although I lingered only on the cartoons and the full page ads for cultural opposites (Bentley/Rolls Cars vs. countercultural VW Beatles). Ballantine Beer ads featuring a different ethnic/immigrant minority each week (and in the process losing their entire market), and of course the Brooks Brothers ads. Now aware that the BB tartan is barely a decade old, it's clear to me they've certainly not paid much attention to their own commission!