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[pipesndrumsnun]

THANKS, Larry!! That looks MUCH better...I really like it!!
Have you worn your new kilt yet?

[Wompet]

That does look much better, but the colors still strike me as ... well, muppety. Kermit green, Gonzo purple ... the acrylic seems too bright, even in the dark.

[Riverkilt]

Great idea, scanning. Colors look more like the wool IOS from the scan.

Of course that brings back the question of whether appropriate permisson was obtained.

And like others, put it on and show us what it looks like being worn.

Ron

[Larry124]

...And like others, put it on and show us what it looks like being worn.
Ron

That would have to be by photo, and the tartan does not photograph well.
I'll try to figure out a work-around.

[Larry124]

I wore it last night while practicing guitar and doing laundry and assorted other things.
In real life the colors are bold but NOT blindingly garish.
The color with the least blend is the olive stripe behind the white line.

Here’s a blurry pic I took of myself in a mirror in another attempt to capture the look of the thing.
Note: The chestnut belt color is correct.

[auld argonian]

As I said earlier, some dyes just show up more vividly on film (or CCD) than they appear to the human eye.

Just the same, I'd consider wearing that one if you ever go out in the woods during deer season...

Best

AA

[ChromeScholar]

That looks a lot better. If that is what it looks like in real life, I might be tempted into buying one.

[Larry124]

Barb,
Sorry I don’t see it.
Do you mean the vertical stitching in from the fringe?
Below is the interior of the waistband and front apron at the straps.

[Kilted Stuart]

I second that M.A.C Newsome.

I can't endorse a un-registered tartan that is not of the fine standard the IOS was intended to be in color. It just does not represent the colors that people painstakingly produced and perfected. Minor alterations to the sett size aside the colors should be basically the same or it's not really the same tartan.

I don't like the acrylic kilts but that's just me.
I have still yet to see a pic that proves that this kilt is not neon.

I'll save my $50.00 to buy better quality any day.

Kilted Stuart

[M. A. C. Newsome]

IMinor alterations to the sett size aside the colors should be basically the same or it's not really the same tartan.

Just as a point of clarification, the above is not exactly true. There has never been any kind of attempt in the tartan industry to regulate specific color shades. Nor could there be, with the dye lots differing from mill to mill, and even within the same mill over time. Imagine in the pre-industrial era when yarns were all dyed in (relatively) small batches by local crofters.

What is important is the color in general, not the specific hue. Thus you can have the MacGregor tartan, which is basically red and green (with a white & black stripe), but what shade of red or green is not prescribed. This is how you can get variations such as modern, ancient, muted, or weathered MacGregor -- all are the same MacGregor tartan just produced in different color schemes. And even the same "color scheme" (such as modern MacGregor) will likely have slightly different shades of red depending on whether it was produced by Lochcarron, or House of Edgar, or Marton Mills, or Strathmore, or your great-aunt Betty on her hobby handloom.

On the other hand, if you changed the red in the MacGregor tartan to blue, you'd have a different tartan entirely.

So, in the present case of the Isle of Skye tartan, it obviously has a different look in acrylic than in wool. But this is characteristic of all the acrylic kilts I've seen produced in Pakistan. The colors tend to be rather more vivid than the same tartan produced in Scottish wool. That may or may not be your cup of tea. My issue is not with the colors, but with the copyright violation, which would still be an issue even if the colors in acrylic were a dead ringer for the woolen tones.