Originally Posted by
KSmedic
Really, there's nothing wrong with that. Outside of Scotland, nobody's all that likely to know the difference between one tartan and another, and clan specific tartans are really just a marketing gimmick invented by 18th century weavers, anyway. If you're cool with wearing the tartan, go ahead and wear it.
True, one of my kilts is Black Watch and about 1/3 to 1/2 of the time the question is "Is that your family tartan?"
Clan Mackintosh North America / Clan Chattan Association
Cormack, McIntosh, Gow, Finlayson, Farquar, Waters, Swanson, Ross, Oag, Gilbert, Munro, Turnbough,
McElroy, McCoy, Mackay, Henderson, Ivester, Castles, Copeland, MacQueen, McCumber, Matheson, Burns,
Wilson, Campbell, Bartlett, Munro - a few of the ancestral names, mainly from the North-east of Scotland
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