JolyStNicholas posed a question regarding the appropriateness of wearing another clan's tartan, and that thread (http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/w...494/index.html) is now 17, going on 18 pages long within a matter of days.

I did not want to enter the fray there, so chose instead to start a new thread here with a simple, specific question that is, however, directly related to the above.

(Note, I am perfectly happy wearing kilts and not being even vaguely Scottish so this is by no means necessarily a practical question), but more as an academic exercise, I just wonder -- knowing full-well that the clan system of ancient Scotland has ceased to exist, yet remnants still persist to this day, is it in fact, actually possible to be "adopted" into a clan? By that I mean more than just becoming an associate member of a clan society (which is a social club)? I mean, just like a friend of mine went to court to get legally and officially adopted by his adoptive parents, does such an equivalent exist in the sense of the (modern) Scottish clan?

I realize also that association through marriage might be such a scenario. But once again, I'm thinking of other situations.

Just wondering.... (But this question has been in my mind for quite some time).

Cheers,

Jim