The Big Yin's Tartan Day parade kilt goes on display

Sir Billy Connolly has loaned a kilt he wore to the Tartan Day parade in New York to the V&A in Dundee.

The museum is displaying the kilt as part of its People's Tartan collection.

It was worn by the much-loved Scottish comedian when he led the annual parade through Manhattan, accompanied by his family, in 2019.

The 80-year-old, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's 10 years ago, said that when he was a boy, people who wore kilts were thought of as "weird".

"But when the Boy Scouts started to wear kilts, the idea of kilt wearing took a leap forward as far as we were concerned."

The kilt is described as The Big Yin's Grand Marshal kilt and it will be displayed at the museum until 14 January.

13 October 2023