Men's fashion

With the new trend of tartan in the fashion industry, it’s now possible to buy tartan clothes everywhere in the shops for both women and men. Nowadays, men are also more concerned about fashion and follow the trends. 

So guys it's time for you to wear Tartan if you don’t already do so! 

In this article you can see my selection of the best tartan in the shops and easy for you to all buy yourselves. I really hope it will inspire you.

The first one, is a shirt with the traditional red tartan pattern from the Asos website. The shirt is really easy to wear, you don’t need to think too much, wear it with a black jeans and you will be so trendy. If you don’t like the colour, the website has a lot of different shirts with tartan pattern. You should find your happiness.

The small ‘pluses’ of this product, the shirt is on sale on the website and so affordable!

Now the tartan trousers: 

I found this tartan trousers from the Jigsaw website. Of course this trousers is less affordable than a simple shirt but it’s a good quality as described in the website, tailored for a slim-fit and impeccably cut from high-quality Scottish wool. I love the trousers worn with a turtle-neck jumper, so elegant!

To finish, the tartan bow tie is the accessory that you need! When you wear a suit the bow tie ends a dress with elegance.

The first bow tie is from Ties online and is on sale. This tartan bow tie is really nice during this season. Nevertheless you can find other colours in the website.

The last one is from Asos, I choose this bow tie because it’s really classic and cheap (on sale again). Thus for £4.50 you can have a nice tartan bow tie, it’s definitely time to try! 

Tartan & co

Movies & Tartan

Hi!

Tonight I suggest to watch a movie:

BRAVEHEART directed by Mel Gibson.




The 1995 movie with Mel Gibson and Sophie Marceau is an awe-inspiring cinematic portrayal of Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace a 13th-century Scottish warrior and his greatest accomplishments. William Wallace is a Scottish rebel who leads an uprising against the cruel English ruler Edward the Longshanks, who wishes to inherit the crown of Scotland for himself. When he was a young boy, William Wallace's father and brother, along with many others, lost their lives trying to free Scotland.


I have watched it one month ago and it's a really nice film. But be careful the film is a “historical fantasy” and shouldn’t be taken as the accurate portrayal of Wallace’s life (but that does not devalue it). Traditionally the visual sign of clanship and district, tartan was popularized outside Scotland by the tartan-clad Highland regiments and Queen Victoria's royal endorsement. Hollywood has continued to sustain the romantic fictions of tartan like in Braveheart.

William Wallace’s origins is wrong in the movie. Wallace was portrayed as a poor man who was secretly married right before he got in trouble with the English. Actually, he was a landed commoner with a good education. Moreover the Scots didn’t paint their faces for battle, the distinctive blue face paint—called “woad”— in the movie was not real. To finish William Wallace never once in his life wore a clan tartan kilt, what we saw in Braveheart was not worn in the 13^th century.

However I definitely recommend it to you!!!


Other film's suggestion with nice tartan:

Coming to America with Eddie Murphy in his McDowell's tartan uniform!
Summury: an African prince goes to Queens, New York City to find a wife whom he can respect for her intelligence and will.

And the second movie is Kill Bill, with Chiyaki Kuriyama as Go-Go Yubari, the kilted schoolgirl assassin.

Enjoy!