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Book Description: The tartan is perhaps the world's all-time fashion favorite. 'No dress worn by the inhabitants of Britain has a more ancient, romantic and honorable history than the Highland dress, and yet it has been the plaything of fortune from its earliest days,' wrote the The Kilt Society in 1912. It has had a major part in battlefield dress and is said to have had some role with the Moors. Astronaut Allan Bean laid a swatch of MacBean tartan on the moon's surface. A best seller for years, the last edition of TARTAN was published in 1995. This third edition has a larger format, information on women's Highland habit and the results of new scientific tests carried out on the dye of a kilt allegedly worn by Bonnie Prince Charlie. It also contains a full color-section on individual clans so that readers can trace their own tartan and family histories. The tartan was once popular throughout the Roman empire but only the Scots, perhaps because of the weather, stuck with it; other Europeans found leggings, breeches, and skirts to be more suitable. After the last, and unsuccessful, Jacobite uprising in 1746, Parliament's Disarming Act forbade the wearing of the kilt, tartans and Highland dress in the rebellious Highland provinces for 36 years. It was, however, worn and produced in the Lowlands that were unaffected by the Act. Historians have worked hard to piece together the tartan's history as many small local Highlands mills died out and with them, countless clan tartan patterns. Nevertheless, the industry survived. A royal visit by King George IV to Edinburgh in 1822 cemented the tartan as the country's unique symbol. Scots wanted to look, well, Scottish, and Sir Walter Scott, the event's organizer, urged them to come 'plaided and plumed.' Author Hugh Cheape is curator of Scottish Culture at the National Museums of Scotland, in Edinburgh.

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