Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
I have no idea where the information comes from either! But its not how we do it here.

If I use my dear wife as an example of how we do it here. She was born to a well respected Highland Clan and until she married for the first time she wore skirts and various tartan accessories in her family tartan. When she married she wore her husbands tartan to the exclusion of all others. When she was widowed she still wore her late husband's tartan as did her children. When she and I married she now wears my tartan to the exclusion of all others, I don't think we ever discussed it. It just is what is done here. Interestingly when the time came for her children to become seriously interested in kilts they were offered the choice of their late father's tartan or mine. Rightly in my opinion, they chose to wear their late father's tartan.

Now we are talking Clan tartans here. Although from close observation of close family members and friends who served in Scottish regiments, even when on leave, or on retirement, they always chose to wear the Clan tartan.

If you want to ignore convention then go ahead, you will do what you do, but at least you know what is done in the home of the kilt, Scotland.
Jock, how exactly is it done today when an individual may not be certain of which Clan tartan to wear? I mean to ask, someone in a more difficult situation...not wanting to be indelicate, you see. Say, if one loses track of their only grandparent and had no idea which tartan was worn by them.