You either love them or hate them but Tartan Dr Martens have been around now for quite sometime and will be around for sometime to come. Originally designed for the punk era the tartan Dr Martens are another example of longevity in Dr Martens design.
The McMartens tartan weave used originates from Wollaston in Northamptonshire (home of the only UK Dr Martens factory left) which is where the design was probably first decided. However, when journalists contacted the Griggs family who own the UK rights to Dr Martens they added a humurous back story.
The back story- The tartan, comes from the village of Wollaston in Northamptonshire (this part is true), and was created by the 17th-century Scottish eccentric Stuart MacRaddish, who worked with the Griggs family. The Griggs family have always worn the McMarten tartan, making up their own tartan trews and velvet coatees lined with green taffeta, matched with cherry-red, eight-hole DM boots. Now, at last, the McMarten tartan is going mass-market.
If only the tartan’s history were true. The McMarten tartan is a fiction, convincing enough to fool American and even Scottish journalists who have contacted Griggs and proves they have a great sense of humour.