This kilt jacket was made by Macpherson’s of Edinburgh. David tells us:
This is the Macpherson tweed – I don’t know its origin, but I got it because I just love the colours of the tweed. It looks such a smart bit of kit! I thought that colour would go nicely with my kilt. You see a lot of people wearing this at the march at the gathering, and it looks very different up close. Looking at it now I’ve discovered there’s a big hole in the front left pocket – it was never sewn up! There is a story attached to how it came into being: we got it from the Macpherson shop in Edinburgh, which was a little shop in the basement in Haymarket. We ordered it in time for the Clan Gathering. I ordered the lady up about two months before the Gathering, and she reassured me that it was in progress. And I rang again, and she said the same thing. And then, when we got to the Gathering, I rang her up from the Duke of Gordon Hotel, and she said she would get it in the post and it would be with me tomorrow morning! And lo and behold, it was! It turned out fabulously well – she was a brilliant tailor, if a little chaotic in her organisation. And there was someone else – a Canadian, I think – waiting for an item, but it didn’t arrive in time! I wear this jacket at the Clan Gathering, and one St Andrews’ Day when I decided to wear my kilt to church – it’s my kilt jacket. I have two badges on it – one is the clan badge in pewter, and the other is from the Platinum Dubh, when the badge was given to us, and I keep them on my jacket. I wouldn’t wear any more on it – it gets to a stage where you look like a bloody tourist – but those two are nice. I enjoy wearing this jacket
Threads of Belonging 