From Scotland, bring a kilt!
Present in our daily lives in the form of blankets, ties, caps, pajamas and countless outerwear, the tartan it may just be one more design for you; perhaps the memory of those shirts from your grunge era or the skirt of the school uniform, but in the ** Highlands **, in the Highlands of Scotland, it is the fabric that dresses the honor of a people.
Made of wool of different colors that give shape to sequences of squares and lines, each tart án identifies a clan, a lineage and its territory or a society , and it is collected in the database of the Scottish Register of Tartans and of the Scottish Tartan Authority , organisms that also regulate the norms on its use, restricted to the members of each clan in question and people authorized by them.
If you don't belong to any of them, if you don't have your own tartan, nothing happens. Since Sir Walter Scott (yes, the author of Ivanhoe) and Romanticism promoted tart garments án in European salons at the beginning of the 19th century –after the defeat of the Jacobites against the English in 1746 it had come to be prohibited, punished with imprisonment or exile–, there are universal designs that anyone can wear, such as the Jacobite, associated with Scottish national identity, or the Royal Steward , Queen Elizabeth's personal tartan.
If not, you can always make your own and even register it officially. We, of all the tartans on the market, especially like those of the London firm Le Kilt.
Your young creative designer, Samantha McCoach , draws on its Scottish roots and the old patterns guarded by Sanquhar Pattern Designs, a cooperative of weavers whose origins date back to the 17th century, for, in an original and respectful twist, elaborate skirts (minis, midis and maxis) and original strapless dresses that are worn with great pride.
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