Quote Originally Posted by thescot View Post
But to produce a tank with the tartan on the bias, you'd have to cut a whole bunch of pieces, match the lines all up, sew them all together, figure out how to hem the bottom (sice with no selvage, you couldn't leave it raw like you do with a kilt), and them dog-cuss your customer while trying to match up all those lines in the pleats which are on the bias.
Reading that made my head hurt.