The British History Of Scotland Grid

Dior 2011 early autumn series inspired by Duchess of Windsor

When it comes to the popularity of English, we can't help saying the grid, just like mentioning the United States, and never forget to mention Hollywood movies.

The grid has a very similar place with Hollywood movies. For example, as a whole concept, Hollywood produced movies are always considered to be "thousands of people", but in most people's eyes, all the grid patterns are the same.

In fact, the British grid now.

Manufacturers produce five hundred to seven hundred different grid designs each year, and the total number of patterns collected by researchers is over seven thousand.

Why are there so many grid designs on small British Isles?

Nowadays, Scotland is commonly known as "TARTAN" in English. It comes from the word "tirer" in ancient French, meaning "velvet".

Nowadays, when we mention the Scotland Ge, we always feel that they represent the signs of certain families and clans and play the same role as badges.

In fact, the earliest TARTAN is the product of fashion.

At that time, dyed fabrics were dyed with vegetable dyes, and the kinds of berries that could be dyed in different areas were different.

So, in the early eighteenth Century, people read the information from each other's body, not the family you belong to, but which area you live in, and the preference of silk to the former Eastern residents, while Westerners like wool linen.

I don't know if I read here. Next time I choose grid, is your psychological pressure smaller?

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1744, highland highland soldiers

In 1749, John Campbell was wearing Tartan.

In 1746, the last battle in British territory: the battle of Kaloden.

The fate of TARTAN changed in 1746.

The reason is that in 1707, Scotland merged with England, and in 1746, after winning the Kaloden campaign to suppress the Scottish uprising, the Hannover Dynasty issued the famous Dress Act.

The law stipulates that in addition to joining the British Army's Scotland soldiers, other Scots can only wear the national costume "Kilt" (England) as the standard of the costumes of the Scottish Highlands. The word "Kilt" comes from the Scandinavian language, meaning the clothes that fold the body.

The earliest Kilt was folded and wrapped on a piece of cloth that was not cut by more than one meter and a half meters wide and six meters long.

Sometimes the waist will be fixed with a belt. In order to cope with the rainy and cold weather, the cloth should be soaked in goose oil to achieve the purpose of further waterproofing.

Since seventeenth Century, the "guild" has been designated as a military uniform and become a symbol of Scotland and TARTAN. The offender's principal offender will be sentenced to six months' imprisonment and will be sentenced to seven years' exile.

A series of measures to ban folk culture, such as "dressing orders" and the prohibition of the use of Gail language, have aroused strong dissatisfaction among Scottish people and fought for nearly half a century.

It was not until 1782 that the Highland Society of London launched a campaign under the leadership of Marquis Graham, who finally succeeded in overthrowing the dress code and keeping the long tradition of dress in Scotland.

What is particularly worth mentioning is that this time the grid is back to Scotland, which is closely related to the influence of the European Romantic movement on Britain.

The British began to reexamine the Celtic dressing way, and Sir Walter Scott's work played a further role.

Since then, George IV wore a Scottish Highland dress "gilt" for a state visit (at which time George IV still did not dare to fully comply with Scotland's dress tradition - nothing should be worn under the skirt), and when Queen Victoria visited Highlands, her fascination with Scotland skirts and TARTAN made the grid formally become popular.

Today, people always feel that the grid is related to the lineage and family lineage. Why does this cognition come from? First of all, it benefits from the use of grid patterns by the Scotland army.

In addition, we can trace back to a company called William Wilson & Sons in the late eighteenth Century.

At that time, the company served as the only supplier of the tartan cloth of the Highland Regiment. Because they wanted to produce large quantities of cloth, they developed the standard colors and patterns of the early grid.

At first, the producers recognized the different patterns with the specified number, but soon they began to name the grid.

This includes not only the names of highland tribes, but also the names of cities, and even some very fancy titles.

However, the name of TARTAN is just a convenient sales tool.

The chance of George IV's visit to Edinburgh brought about an explosive development.

Under Sir Walter Scott's work, the visit became a real "Plaid" party.

Because each of the local clans who came to see George IV were asked to "wear the marks of their clan accurately."

But the problem is that many families did not have any grid marks at that time, so the drama of "firing at a time, not doing well" was staged again.

Overnight, many new lines are created, and no matter how many years they represent, no one cares too much.

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In nineteenth Century, textile owners sensitively discovered the value of grid patterns, especially the need for exclusive family lines in the market.

Together with different members of the clan, they invented many new patterns.

The benefits of grid blowout development are obvious: Nowadays, hundreds of patterns are visible everywhere in the market, which greatly increase the choice of designers and consumers.

The disadvantage is that anyone, whether an individual, a family, or a company or a group, can easily claim that some TARTAN is its own exclusive grid.

Crash? It doesn't matter. As long as the weavers add one or two invisible lines (or even invisible), it's a completely new design.

Today, with the footprints of immigrants from Scotland to the new world, the grid has also sailed for a long time, and has taken root in the other side of the ocean.

Many states, provinces, overseas organizations, military units and even Bands in the United States and Canada have symbolic grid patterns.

In the United States, there is a charming custom called "Kirking of the tartan", which is to let this lattice cloth be blessed in the church.

American astronaut Neil Armstrong even brought a piece of lattice to the moon, which is probably the furthest distance between TARTAN and his native land.

Scotland writer Neil Munro once wrote a poem called "pleated skirt is my joy". If pleated skirt is the joy and glory of Scotland, the upper grid is the light of glories and the fire of glory.

More importantly, the descendants of the Highlands have never forgotten the mission of the torch relay. Today, the tartan pattern everywhere is the best proof.

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Photo note: in 2006, Alexander McQueen and Sarah Jessica Parker were wearing "Scotland Widows Culloden" theme McQueen McQueen fashion.

In a poll on international traditional clothing, 67% of respondents ranked Scotland short skirt as the most popular traditional clothing. Many women respondents also said they thought the men wearing Scotland short skirts were "very attractive".

Therefore, because of its national representation and high recognition, the grid has become the treasure of many British born designers.

Few designers from the British Isles ignore the charm of TARTAN.

Among them, the grid has played the role of superb, and the number of two native English people - MacQueen and Westwood.

MacQueen liked the grid, which originated from his Scotland lineage.

Although grown up in London, MacQueen's temperament seems to be more in tune with Celtic culture.

Do you remember the theme of MacQueen's most famous fashion issue? Yes, Highland Rape is inspired by the brutal rule of England against Scotland in eighteenth Century.

In the autumn and winter of 2006-07, MacQueen launched a fashion series called Widows of Culloden, which was inspired by the campaign of card Clinton.

In 2006, the Metropolitan Museum of art held a fashion show featuring British fashion as the guest to attend the Mike Quinn. He not only wore his own lattice Scotland skirt and belt, but also walked through the metropolis red carpet with the main character Sarah Jessica Parker of "Sex and the City" -- of course, SJP was wearing Alexander McQueen Scotland skirt.

MacQueen's use of grid is rigorous and exquisite, which is closely related to his respect for Scotland culture.

After reconstructing the spirit of the Celtic legend, MacQueen is more willing to return to simplicity, so we will find that he is very restrained and even somewhat old-fashioned in the use of grid.

There seems to be some balance between the traditional strength and the anti traditional designer. The design of the grid is very retro, and the way of dress is more effective.

If you happen to have a Alexander McQueen trademark fashion, please treasure it as a tribute to the greatest designer of the new century.

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In 70s, during the "Seditionaries" period, Vivienne Westwood herself was wearing bondage suit of Tartan fabric.

Vivienne Westwood 1994 autumn winter suit

Compared to MacQueen, Westwood's use of grid pattern is much more wanton.

Westwood's fashion design started with the peak and rebellion, but with the passage of time, the Empress Dowager finally returned to the traditional embrace.

Westwood, the queen of England, the queen of Malta cross and Saturn, finally became immersed in her most familiar and unfamiliar English culture. After studying the development of the British Empire's clothing all day, she naturally did not let go of the Scotland grid. Finally, she chose to cooperate with Harris Tweed, a traditional trellis manufacturer in northern Scotland, so as to pform her Logo into Harris Tweed.

Next, the whole 1980s design, whether it is a corset or a Vitoria era dress, has a figure of Scotland.

Such a self professed person who had no interest in tailoring, only liked to pull the clothes on his clothes, pulled together the orthodox lattice pattern and the rebellious trend at once.

Westwood's grid design, with various colors and details, is a wonderful experience with both a sense of history and a new era.

For example, the winter series launched by Westwood earlier this year included all kinds of Scotland style latticed and striped woolen suits, trousers and skirt.

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Givenchy 2012 punk style Tartan printed shirt in spring and summer

Under the influence and Inspiration of Westwood, more designers joined the team, with passionate D&G, steady and experienced Ralph Lauren, and even never followed the Comme de Garcons and Yohji Yamamoto.

It is precisely these designers' avant-garde moves that have made Scotland grid become fashionable and traditional, completely breaking the previous pattern and making Scotland grid popular.