I've been in a hashing group ("a drinking club with a running problem") for years, and several hashers have adopted kilts as their preferred outfit while out on trail. Several companies now sell sport kilts specifically for this purpose, and a few tartan patterns were created specifically for hashers. If I'm going to wear a kilt, I would feel silly not wearing the colors of the Carnegie Mellon Tartans, even though I was never in the band. I feel certain that they used to sell the kilts in the bookstore, or at the very least you could buy yards of the raw fabric. Is there some other way to purchase an authentic CMU kilt? Or would it in fact be inappropriate in some way for me to wear any such pattern?

Did any other groups at CMU wear tartan kilts? I think the field hockey team may have had a different pattern (though they may have been actual skirts).