Aran Sweaters for the Irish

[gilmore]

That's about how winter was in South Carolina this past year.

Do what I do when it's not cold enough in the winter to wear kilts and highland dress: turn on the AC.

[McMurdo]

You guys should move up to Canada if you want weather cold enough for an Arran Sweater and a kilt.



As far as patterns and Clans I don't really buy it either.

[Jack Daw]

I have an Aran sweater; but gee, I hope I'm not wearing the wrong kind!

[gilmore]

I have an Aran sweater; but gee, I hope I'm not wearing the wrong kind!

If there are clan sweaters, the sweater police cannot be far behind.

[TheKiltedWonder]

You guys should move up to Canada if you want weather cold enough for an Arran Sweater and a kilt.



As far as patterns and Clans I don't really buy it either.

The patterns definitely aren't traditional. I think there are even a couple threads on here saying as much. But McMurdo, might I ask where you purchased that sweater. It looks great!

[Jack Daw]

If there are clan sweaters, the sweater police cannot be far behind.

I defy rules!

[Pleater]

It is, unfortunately, total tosh - unless you want to believe that 'traditional' means 'something someone made up and employed our grandparents to knit so they could sell them'.

The whole concept of the Arran sweaters (I think it was originally Arran) was 'developed' by a man wanting something to sell to the tourists.

The bainin yarn might well have been in use before, for making sweaters much like the fisher ganseys which seems to have been the standard garment for working men - its place, chronologically, being somewhere between the traditional smock and the short jacket.

The white versions were worn for church, though incoming ministers not knowing the local ways were responsible for getting rid of it in some places as they saw it as not respectful and declared the the men should wear shirt and jacket. Its place as a garment for the groom, and for first communions, lingered on, with grandma's embarrassing their grandsons with gifts of lovingly crafted white jerseys for decades.

[McMurdo]

The patterns definitely aren't traditional. I think there are even a couple threads on here saying as much. But McMurdo, might I ask where you purchased that sweater. It looks great!

I got it through Hector Russell they have a shop here in Toronto, and they were having a sale on there were about 4 colours, I chose the natural, however, I may end up getting the other 3 Navy Blue, Green, and Grey.

[Stratherrick]

McMurdo

I have a blue one very similar to yours though not, for once, from HR.

Another thing from your photo, I've NEVER seen a sporran with a tartan lid to it! I think my better half would be very interested in one for herself.

Cheers

Bruce

[McMurdo]

McMurdo

I have a blue one very similar to yours though not, for once, from HR.

Another thing from your photo, I've NEVER seen a sporran with a tartan lid to it! I think my better half would be very interested in one for herself.

Cheers

Bruce

The Sporran comes from Thorfinn Custom Sporrans the tartan flaps are removable I have 4 tartan flaps and a leather flap, it allows me to wear the sporran with a multitude of different tartans.