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Haggis & Bees. In the village of Newton Stewart, Sir Adrian's tenants welcomed him with a bang-up banquet featuring bagpipes and a steaming haggis. An obliging cousin lent him a Dunbar tartan. Then the new baronet went out to have a look for himself at Mochrum Park, the ancestral seat of the Dunbar family...
...west contingent for the recent infatuation with "miracle" fabrics such as dacron and orlon. These synthetic materials are softer than the traditional cloths and retain shape and crease indefinitely. The fabrics are found in shirts; ties, socks and almost every other garment, except for underwear which is tartan this year...
...face of new successes for pink and red, brown and black, olive and forest green. Even more radically, prints are mixed with other prints, checks and tweeds are mated with fabrics using the same colors in a larger pattern. Paisley is making a bid for an untried tartan market. All of this will take form in scarves and narrow tie-scarves being worn with standard-colored sweaters. Look for some smart manufacturer to cash in on the inevitable matching vogue with cinches and scarves to match: it's bound to happen...
...your Dec. 24 article, "Piping the Milk": That rumbling sound is my Scottish ancestors turning over in their graves at the inference that Highland bagpipes are "milkcurdling." Our baby daughter Linda learned to pat the plump tartan bag on my bagpipes long before she went from mother's milk. CAPT. CHESTER A. MACNEILL JR. Champion Bagpiper of Oregon Portland...
...Black Watch (so called from its somber Scottish tartan and original duties as a Highland guard) was first organized as a regiment in 1739. Families of three counties (Perth, Angus, Fife) supplied most of the first recruits, have continued to do so ever since, making the Black Watch "in truth a family, with ... ancestors and descendants." For 200 years the infantrymen of the Watch marched to war in kilts; with the coming of World War II they were ordered-to prevent identification-into common khaki uniforms. "But damn it!" roared an enraged Jock on hearing this shocking news, "We want...