{"product_id":"deans-of-scotland-wool-tartan-midi-skirt-size-8","title":"Vintage Deans of Scotland Pure New Wool Tartan Kilt Skirt - Brown, W25\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eA pleated tartan kilt skirt by \u003cstrong\u003eDeans of Scotland\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003e100% pure new wool, made in Scotland.\u003c\/strong\u003e Brown ground with green, navy, red and white stripes. \u003cstrong\u003eLeather waist buckles, and the kilt pin is still with it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabelled 8. It measures a modern 0 to 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Flat, in inches: waist 25, hips 30, length 30. Vintage sizing is not modern sizing and the gap here is wide enough to send the right person away - so read the tape. The leather buckles give a little range either way, which a zip would not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty inches is a true midi: mid-calf on most people, and the length a kilt was always cut to before anyone shortened it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt is built as a kilt, not as a skirt that looks like one.\u003c\/strong\u003e Flat apron front, deep knife pleats behind, leather straps and buckles at the waist rather than a zip - and the pin, which is the part that nearly always goes missing. A kilt pin does not fasten anything, incidentally. It hangs on the outer apron to weight it so the front does not lift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe brown ground is worth noticing.\u003c\/strong\u003e Most clan tartans sit on blue, green or red. Brown is characteristic of the weathered palette - the third colourway after Ancient and Modern, dyed deliberately muted to look like cloth that has been in the ground and come back up. We are not naming a sett, because the label does not, and a tartan guessed from four colours is a tartan invented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePure new wool is a claim with teeth.\u003c\/strong\u003e It means wool that has never been used before - spun straight from the fleece rather than reclaimed from old cloth. The alternative, shoddy, is wool pulled back out of worn garments and respun: shorter in the fibre, weaker, duller. A Scottish maker putting \u003cem\u003epure new wool\u003c\/em\u003e on a label is telling you which of the two you are holding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeans of Scotland made kilt-style pleated tartan skirts and wool knitwear\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the trade knows the label best from the 1970s through the 1990s. Beyond that we can tell you very little: we looked for a founding date, a mill and a company history and found none. That is ordinary for a Scottish maker of this size and not a reason to doubt the label, but we would rather say we looked than invent something.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModern size:\u003c\/strong\u003e Waist 25 in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition is close to perfect\u003c\/strong\u003e - no holes, no stains, the pleats still sharp and both leather straps sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of one. Sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo returns - as is.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deans of Scotland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44411317518423,"sku":"MT-TR-172","price":138.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0034\/8692\/files\/IMG_6870.jpg?v=1792537436","url":"https:\/\/shopmille.com\/products\/deans-of-scotland-wool-tartan-midi-skirt-size-8","provider":"MILLE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}