This Black and White tartan is now called the mourning tartan although it originally appears to have been the tartan of the Menzies families of the South West Scottish borders - Durisdeer and Enouch. This is said to have come from their shield granted in 1370 - 'a chief sable' - black band across a white shield.This has a black background with seven white check lines in exactly the same sett as the others. It is recorded that clansmen attending funerals of their chiefs would wear the full-dress red and white kilts, therefore it is not exactly clear how this became the mourning tartan - perhaps as a shawl worn by the women. In modern times it has certainly been a fashionable choice at different times and it would be no problem to find jackets, skirts, trousers to buy in shops - all in various different sizes of the sett.