Tartan print - From royalty to the street

The design pattern is also known in Europe and the world as Stamped, has its provenance in Scotland as the official printing system of royalty and the typical Scottish / Scottish Skirt attire.

 Used as a standard of dress in clans for the development of their social identity in the environment in which to develop and share the members. After the defeat of Scotland in the Battle of Culloden in 1746 the seal is distributed its meaning and activities, Great Britain as a strategy to eradicate the clans of the feudal system of study exposed the "Prohibition" which prohibit the use of bagpipes, and even of traditional clothing, in order to demoralize them and convert the Scottish clans into docile masses.

The Kilt has its appearance in the Highlands in Scotland, depending on the climate the thickness of the fabric is a variant.

The design of the tartan "Colors and position of lines" has a meaning for the clans and regulated by the laws / Gwen Stefani Live Mansfield 2016

   Although the decree was repealed in 1782 the practice of using tartan never recovered its former popularity, consequently many clans were dissolved. But the kilt never came to disappear and it was thanks to the Highland Regiment serving in the British Army, Highlander, they continued to wear traditional clothing even in the First World War, a military kilt of camouflage, khaki was designed for the Scottish Regiment. Nowadays they only take it in official acts, as a dress uniform.

The quantity and the quality of the colors indicated the economic possibilities of the one who carried it. There are official organisms that regulate the use of the tartan "The Scottish Tartan Authority" - Military Kilt

Soldiers Using Kilt in Tartan - Woodcut 1631

   The royalty was not the only one who adopted the use of the pattern "crossed" in tribute to their offspring, separating the clans that are still in force, there are organizations and companies at national and international level that handle the use of tartan as a standard.

Nombres y Significado/ Names and Meaning - http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan/the-growth-of-tartan/royal-tartans/

Balmorral Tartan- Duke and Duchess of Rothesay

Burberry, with more than 80 years as a trademark has made its "chess" beige, black red and white its unmistakable identity

     In the struggle for the individuality of thought and dress, the fashion of the hand with the spirit must be the most shocking social noise of the century composed of meanings and connotations that allow human beings to transfer creative language to the physical universe.

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