As said by Perter C:

"Does this make me one of the most idiotic of tartan wearers who have no sense of what they are doing? These are very strong words as there are actually no rules. Do we have to bide by YOUR rules? Are YOU the tartan police?"


I to have read this thread from start to finish. If I remember what the original context, MacWage's point was that we all make our own rules but they only apply to ourselves. In the end we all have to make some delination among the tartans as to what we wear and what we don't. There are no rules so we have to make them up for ourselves for application only to ourselves. There are thousands of Tartans and even Hamish only has 80 kilts. That is a very small sample from all the possibilities.

I have my own little set of rules from which limit my possible choices. One of these is and Sett that in conected to a clan that I can get the yardage cheap. A case in point is the kilt that I made out of a flannel bed sheet. To the best of my knowledge it is the tartan of the clan MacBedsheet. It is serviceable, doesn't look too bad, and I learned a lot in making it. If I were out in my MacBedsheet kilt and some stranger happened to tell me that I was wearing his clans' tartan it would be the start of a great conversation and a couple drinks no doubt and I would have added to my kilted knowledge base. That's part of the fun. We's all Kilties after all.