When I was younger and wore a kilt for piping or Scottish Country dancing it was always tartan, and I had all but stopped wearing kilts by 2002 when my wife bought me the black heavyweight kilt. I find that I now wear the black kilt on average one day a week whereas I rarely wear tartan nowadays. My two remaining tartan kilts, Black Watch, and Cunningham each had a single outing at Xmas/New Year but probably only get worn once or twice a year and indeed if I thought I could recoup the dry cleaning costs I'd get the Black Watch kilt cleaned and sell it on e-bay as it is no longer a good fit. Now that I wear a kilt for everyday wear rather than for piping and dancing I find that I am not self conscious of wearing the kilt, if in black, as the black draws less attention. Black can be worn as business wear with black jacket, kilt hose and tie or as casual wear with rugby socks and tee shirt or fleece. Indeed I like wearing a black kilt so much that I've now bought the lightweight Mercy kilt in black for casual summer wear. Not wanting to lose my Scottish tradition, but do others feel more at ease stepping out in a dark self colour in preference to a tartan kilt?