Quote Originally Posted by emolas View Post
I agree. The "shock and awe" factor of the Loud McLeod is definately high but I wouldn't call it feminine. There are opinions that a man in colours not generally seen as masculine is somehow MORE manly because he has the guts to wear it. I have a bright pink shirt I wear in memory of my sister (it was her favorite colour) and all the comments I have gotten about it have been to the effect of "it takes a real man to wear a hot pink shirt...".
Another tartan with that effect is one of the Barclay tartans

Back to the "Loud MacLeod" .... in 1998 I saw a gent wearing a trench coat in this tartan at the Stone Mt. Highland Games at the clan MacLeod tent. That was a lot of "Loud MacLeod."