A lot-loved Scottish comic Sir Billy Connolly has despatched his kilt to a tartan exhibition.
Sir Billy has lent his Tartan Day kilt to the V&A Dundee as a part of the Individuals’s Tartan assortment.
It was worn by Sir Billy when he led the annual Tartan Day parade via New York in 2019.
The kilt is described as The Massive Yin’s Grand Marshal kilt and will probably be displayed from Friday till January 14.
It’s the largest object to be added to the exhibition and was made with the MacLean of Duart tartan by Edinburgh-based kilt maker Howie Nicholsby.
Sir Billy stated: “I prefer to put on my mom’s tartan. It’s MacLean of Duart and I like this pinky, weathered one.
“For the event once I led the Tartan Parade in New York, a Scottish kilt-maker known as Howie Nicholsby made me a improbable kilt.
“He’s on the head of the motion to make the kilt a windswept and attention-grabbing various to trousers everywhere in the world. I like that.
“Once I was a boy in Glasgow, individuals who wore kilts have been regarded as bizarre.
“After we noticed somebody in a kilt we used to observe them, singing ‘Kilty, kilty chilly bum’.
“However when the Boy Scouts began to put on kilts, the thought of kilt sporting took a leap ahead so far as we have been involved.
“Through the years it has grow to be highly regarded, so now it’s the achieved factor to put on a kilt at your marriage ceremony.
“However, once I received married to Pamela it was in Fiji and I had a Fijian sarong painted like a tartan kilt – properly, in that warmth a woollen one would have been nightmarish.
“There’s extra nonsense talked in regards to the kilt than anything in Scotland.
“Individuals say you may’t put on your mom’s tartan, and you may’t do that or put on that tartan. They’re simply talking out of a gap of their head.
“I like the best way the kilt goes. I like the brand new types of the jackets and the plaids and so forth. Leather-based kilts and all types of materials.”
James Wylie, curator at V&A Dundee, stated: “Billy is arguably probably the most well-known Scot round at this time, so to incorporate his kilt within the exhibition alongside together with his ideas on tartan is a uncommon likelihood.
“His identification begins as a Scot nevertheless it actually doesn’t finish there, and I feel that parallels the place we discover tartan at this time – now it truly is a world textile.”
Howie Nicholsby, of twenty first Century Kilts in Edinburghsaid: “Becoming Sir Billy for his Grand Marshal NYC Tartan Day Parade together with his MacLean tartan kilt go well with was an honour that may stay with me without end.
“I’m so happy Billy’s kilt is now occurring show at V&A Dundee for individuals to see.”