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Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion, a podcast that explores the who, what, when, of why we wear.

We are fashion historians and your hosts, Cassidy Zachary.

And April Calliam.

Cass, I am very excited that today we get to continue our conversation with Dr. Rosie Wayne of the National Museums Scotland about Scottish Dress History.

Earlier this week, she joined us to detail how Dress has historically figured into the political landscape of Scotland,

and in turn, the British Empire.

And we also discuss the history of Tertans, the boldly patterned textile which has now become synonymous in the popular imagination as a veritable emblem of Scottishness.

Yeah, and one of the many things that we learned from the episode earlier this week was that this term plaid that many of us use interchangeably now with Tartan is technically incorrect.

plaid actually refers to a specific garment, whereas Tartan is the woven motif of the textile itself.

So you know Dress listeners, we love a good bit of fashion etymology on Dress.

We do. It's like my favorite thing.

And how the terminology of fashion actually evolves over time.

The evolution of the meaning of Dress is really at the core of what we do here on the show, and our episodes this week are such fantastic illustrations of just that.

While many of us may categorize Tartans as quote unquote traditional text styles, one of the main themes that Rosie and I chatted about was the assignment and evolution of meanings associated with the most Scottish of text styles.

I for one cannot wait to learn more, Dr. Wayne, welcome back to Dress.

One of the sections that I love the most in your book was actually the chapter, which is entitled designing and trading Tartan and Georgian Britain.

There is all of this correspondence that you detail in that chapter that gives us a glimpse into the ever evolving nature of Tartan and the relationship between the manufacturer and the consumer.

Could you tell us a little bit more about that relationship because it seems that the motifs themselves or the colorways and the patterns were never perhaps as static as a lot of us assume them to be.

There was a ton of collaboration between the clients and the makers.

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