About 500 years ago, someone in Scotland lost track of their tartan. A scrap of the fabric reemerged in a peat bog late in the 20th century. Carbon dating pegged the plaid to about 1500-1600 C.E., ...

The Irish-American was surprised when the honest-to-goodness Irishman told him that tartans — those colored patterns associated with the kilts and sashes of bagpipe bands — were never really just for ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Everywhere I look, I see men wearing kilts. But, to be fair, people all over are wearing a peculiar ...

If you're proudly wearing your kilt or sporting the family plaid as part of National Tartan Day, don't feel you have to go sans the underwear. The practice of wearing nothing beneath the kilt has been ...

One sleepy morning this summer in Edinburgh’s Leith neighborhood, a pub-stuffed, cobblestoned port district, a persnickety tailor tugged at the lapels of my formal Prince Charlie jacket and centered ...

As a Scot living in London, I like to keep a bit of home with me, whether it's sipping a wee dram of whisky and Irn Bru at the weekend or nibbling on my favourite treat shortbread. When it comes to ...

The tartan was designed to cope with growing demand in Holland The University of St Andrews has designed a new tartan after growing demand for a specific kilt for Holland. Dr David Wishart designed a ...

A young Prince William and Prince Harry posing with King Charles in Balmoral. The photograph was reenacted in episode 2 season 6 of The Crown. While kilts have never been Prince Harry's nor Prince ...