The Plaid Appeal

For a very long time plaid designs had a hold on me from the tins of shortbread biscuits whose contents I devoured as a boy to Scottish Regimental soldiers in kilts via the sensational Bay City Rollers pop group I loved as a young boy.

Perhaps that's where that liking for plaid skirts and matching clan ties came in and my mum did have ladies kilt skirts that I sometimes would try on as I wasn't much for all the ceremonial things associated with the male kilt but did like skirts.

I almost bought one back in 1984 from the Giroscope magazine the bank National Girobank had.