Black Watch tartan Argylls on Ebay

**OC Richard** · 15th June 14, 04:21 AM

Just like the title says!

I don't know what I think about these.

About these specific jackets, note that they have the same odd boxy cut and strangely high pocket flaps as the Harris Tweed Argylls being sold by the same firm.

Too bad they didn't bother to match up the pattern. Stuff like that bugs me.

About a Black Watch jacket in general, I would think it would look best with a Royal Stewart kilt.

There's long precedence for jackets in the Black Watch tartan

**Jock Scot** · 15th June 14, 07:53 AM

To my eyes, it would be better if the tartan of the jacket and waist coat were cut on the bias. That would no doubt increase the cost, though.

**OC Richard** · 15th June 14, 12:08 PM

Yes agreed that it would look far better cut to the bias.

That's the way the Black Watch pipers' doublets were done. (You can just see in the photo that the sleeves are done to the bias, while the cuffs are done straight.)

Here are a couple tartan Argylls which have come up on Ebay in recent years; better tailoring, but still not done to the bias

Then there's this...