Need some help... Highland dancing

[RockyR]

What has the date of the tartan registration got to do with the legitimacy of a dance tartan? I don't understand the tendency here to downgrade dance tartans. They're neither more or less a tartan as any one that you've currently designed in the last 10 years. At least dance tartans must be based on existing clan, family or district tartans as specified by the SOBHD which puts them in the same range as Hunting, Ancient or Weathered lines of the same tartans. And, makes them more legit than a fantasy tartan such as the R'leyh tartan.

Not sure why you think I'm "downgrading" the dance tartans and I'm not trying to pick or enter into an argument. Nowhere did I "downgrade" them. I simply stated that they were created and registered more recently specifically for highland dancers, not as an official approved tartan (necessarily) by the clan chief. In that last sentence, I am making an assumption as I don't believe many clan chiefs have taken a new dancers tartan and officially adopted it as the "dress" tartan for the clan, but I may be wrong and would happily admit so if I am shown examples of a clan chief doing so (i.e. the dance tartan was created and marketed to dancers first, then at a later date, the clan chief approved it).

The dance tartans have "just as much right to exist" and just as much legitimacy as any of the dozens of tartans I've created and registered or the R'Lyeh tartan that Artificer created (I believe it was Scott who designed it). The mill or tartan designer (in the case where it wasn't a mill that designed it) saw a need in the marketplace for new designs and had them registered and sells them. Nothing wrong with that. That's capitalism.

I'm not sure why you have such disdain towards me, but having explained my comments, I will gracefully be bowing out of this discussion.