Solid Color Kilt in "Mrs. Brown"

**Cawdorian** · 27th July 06, 05:11 AM

It is my understanding that Queen Victoria commissioned the modern red, blue and black "Brown" tartan specfically for John Brown.

**MacWage** · 27th July 06, 05:35 AM

To add to Mr. Newsome (don't get to say that often), Bob Martin spends a good bit of his kilt book on victorian era tweed kilts. In the back cover is a picture of a group in full tweed kilt suits.

Inded, Mr. Tweedy of Chicken Run might own a tweed kilt (wouldn't that be his "clan tartan"-> Clan Tweed) :rolleyes: !

**Cawdorian** · 27th July 06, 05:38 AM

Couldn't Mr. Tweedy wear the Tweesdale tartan?

**MacWage** · 27th July 06, 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by Cawdorian

Couldn't Mr. Tweedy wear the Tweesdale tartan?

I guess Mr. Tweedy could where whatever tartan Mrs. Tweedy lets him!! :rolleyes:

(Just don't tell James that

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By the way, the chickens are organizing an escape!!!!!!!!!

BACK TO TOPIC!!!! (though I got us off it

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**Planopiper** · 27th July 06, 07:43 AM

Notice that Mr. Brown also wears a horsehair sporran. I believe I've seen at least one other portrait with him wearing a white horsehair sporran. We don't do that much now, but the precedent for wearing one with non-military dress is there.

He also wore a glengarry, which is unusual when it's not part of a uniform. He may have been in the military and kept it from the old days. Not many people can pull it off with non-uniform dress, though.

**Ruanaidh** · 27th July 06, 08:37 AM

The caption also stated that John Brown was wearning a "plain 'mourning' tartan". I searched the index but couldn't find it. Anyone know which tartan it was?

**Graham** · 27th July 06, 08:48 AM

I was given a copy of the movie for my birthday, I shall have to take a bo-peep and see!

It's a great film none the less

**cavscout** · 27th July 06, 09:17 AM

Originally Posted by Planopiper

Notice that Mr. Brown also wears a horsehair sporran. I believe I've seen at least one other portrait with him wearing a white horsehair sporran. We don't do that much now, but the precedent for wearing one with non-military dress is there.

He also wore a glengarry, which is unusual when it's not part of a uniform. He may have been in the military and kept it from the old days. Not many people can pull it off with non-uniform dress, though.

Interestingly, all the men in civilian clothes are wearing the horse hair sporrans in those pictures.

Normally I'm not a fan of the look, but that is usually because the person doing it has hodge podged together a "highlander outfit" with bits from a ren fair and the victorian period and the contemporary styles and has the sporran hung too low so it hangs below the bottom edge of the kilt :rolleyes:

The crispness of the entire outfit that Mr. Brown is wearing (and the others) makes the whole thing work to my eye. I still don't think I would try to pull it off but it is surprisingly decent looking.

**Riverkilt** · 27th July 06, 09:31 AM

I don't have a jacket yet, haven't much liked the "stereotypical" cut of them...and would have little use for them here in the heat, but I really like the jacket the John Brown character wore most of the movie. Something different.

No clue if it was authentic and well researched or just what wardrobe dreamed up. Looks good.

I liked the green glengarry too, save the long ribbons whipping about...kept visualizing a huge fan creating a false wind for the shot. Can't think of any Scotsman who would tolerate the ribbons whipping in their face like that.

Ron