Newbe Question alert: Okay to wear other tartan?

[Oatmeal Savage]

Thanks everone for your ideas and opinions. I am sorry to be asking so many question, it is a pain.

Thanks David, I followed up on you suggestion.

Kevin

You can E--mail the Stewart society at archivist@stewartsociety.org for permission to wear the Stewart tartan you want, although its not necessary, but it might make you feel better.

[Kid Cossack]

Oatmeal Savage:

The only sorry oatmeal I've ever seen was at a Navy base in North Carolina. I don't think you've said or done anything to be sorry over. You had a question about tartan wearing, and you asked it. As you may have gathered from the responses, there's more than one way to skin the proverbial cat, and there's more than one way to look at which tartans one can/ought wear.

I am sort of of mixed minds regarding "appropriate tartan" wear. To the extent that wearing a clan tartan means allegiance to the clan, I'm not entitled to wear any of 'em. (I am an American, and the only oath of allegiance I have taken is to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foriegn and domestic.) On the other hand, I've got kith and kin from several Scots clans, and I've a couple of the tartans. I've also got kilts in tartans that I just like---for instance the Farquharson casual USAK. First off, it's a pretty tartan, and second of all, one of my favorite Victorian mechanical devices is the Farquharson single shot rifle.

Then again, I'm also a former Marine, and I'd look askance indeed at someone in the Leatherneck tartan who wasn't a Marine.

And speaking of the Marine Corps, they told us at boot camp that the only stupid question was the question you didn't ask.

Ever forward, with pleats flying in the wind!

[macwilkin]

Moved thread to heraldry and tartans section. Please post all tartan-related questions here.

Regards,

TJW

[davedove]

MacWage, that was the best way of explaining it I have heard. Good job!

While there are no laws, and there are certainly NOT the ancient links that many people believe, there are many more recent meanings to the tartan and to wear the tartan associates you with those meanings.

[MacWage]

MacWage, that was the best way of explaining it I have heard. Good job!

While there are no laws, and there are certainly NOT the ancient links that many people believe, there are many more recent meanings to the tartan and to wear the tartan associates you with those meanings.

Thanks!!!

[Robin]

Many of the ancient (pre 1819) tartans had...and some still have...no name, they were registered by Wilsons of Bannockburn with a number.
They were all fashion tartans...some received fancy names (like Caledonia...No.4 and No.155) and some are now in use as clan tartans (like Wilson No.232, later Regent, now MacLaren)

Go check the STA Tartan Ferret and search for wilson ...you'll see what I mean...

STA

it's refreshing

[arrogcow]

Another thing to bear in mind is that just because a tartan has a clan name does not make it a clan tartan. For instance the tartan I'm wearing in the pic in this thread http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=21083 is called Montgomery. However, it is not the official Montgomery Clan tartan.

Adam

[majdan]

Another thing to bear in mind is that just because a tartan has a clan name does not make it a clan tartan. For instance the tartan I'm wearing in the pic in this thread http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=21083 is called Montgomery. However, it is not the official Montgomery Clan tartan.

Adam

I always though that that was the Montgomery Anicent Tartan

[arrogcow]

Ancient tartan means that it is the same colors and sett as the regular tartan, just lighter (like it's old and faded). Mine is listed with the STA as Montgomery VS and is only two colors as apposed to Montgomery (Clan) which has four colors (and a very different sett).

Adam

[Robin]

Observation:

Many old tartans have purple or pink.