Scotland

Oh boy I had to laugh today when I saw the article in the Herald article about that postponement of the Dressed to Kilt fashion show. The Herald took the opportunity to reprint that hilarious photograph of ‘I’m not gay’ Mr Jack McConnell sporting his awful pinstripe kilt that made him something of a laughing stock. It is well worth a quick peep if you have never seen it before. you will find it here.

Anyway back to the main point of this post, Dressed to Kilt fashion show in New York. Last years event was something of a success but this year they have rescheduled the event until the fall. The reason appears to be that it will bring it more in line with the fashion industry calendar which, on the face of it, should be good news for Scotland and tartan. Unfortunately advance tickets had already been widely picked up and, although all ticket sales will be refunded, it all seems a bit of a do.

I find it all a bit strange, surely it makes more sense to have an event that promotes Scottish fashion and tartan appearing around the same time as Tartan Day? It seems others believe this would make more sense too. Annoyingly it looks like Tartan Day is gone and is to be replaced by ‘Scotland Week’. Damn ‘Tartan Day’ is far better, easy to remember and could easily grow to become one of those incredible days of the year.

Dressed To Kilt was a cool idea and perfect for promoting the Scottish fashion industry in the correct environment during a time when they would stand a good chance of making important deals and, more importantly, take advantage of the excellent networking opportunities. If the ‘powers that be’ really wanted to have an emphasis on the Scottish fashion industry during the usual fashion events they should have ADDED something new rather than swap it with something already well established. Who are these people who make such stupid decisions?

Reading the article in the Herald it would appear that the event has been moved “because the organisers are indisposed” well stuff them this is far too important an event to be treated in such a way!

Dressed To Kilt is worth investigating if you are interested in such things but even if you are not that interested you should still visit the Herald article if only to read the wonderfully amusing comments.