Tartan Obligation

**Wompet** · 5th February 08, 06:12 PM

Ron, I can understand only wanting to have tartans you have connections to. And I can understand not wanting to wear some of those tartans because they don't appeal to you (fortunately, I don't have that problem myself

).
But there's the Maple Leaf, which you've admired before, and you have a connection to. And your connections are stronger than mine (SOKS only, I'm afraid), and I'm making a Maple Leaf kilt.
And you said you wanted a Law Enforcement Officers' Memorial tartan kilt, once Rocky made them available - put the money aside for that.

**The Wizard of BC** · 5th February 08, 06:37 PM

Ron, I have written a new rule just for you.

Thou shalt wear the Tartan of thine fathers name.
Thou shalt wear that Tartan and only that Tartan.
For you are a product of the blood of your father and fathers before him. Your father's Tartan shall be worn only as long as you can trace his lineage through sixteen generations of which ten must have been residents of the ancestral lands and in possession of the family arms as granted by Royal Decree.
Your fathers Tartan must be able to be proven to have been designed and registered prior to the arrival of Saint Andrew.
If no such proof of lineage and antiquity exists thou shalt be restriced from wearing your father's Tartan.
In the case of you being denied the wearing of your father's Tartan you will be required to restrict your Choice of Tartans only to those of plebeian and modern design (after 4:00pm 18 November 1124).

**Bugbear** · 5th February 08, 06:48 PM

Good luck, Ron...

**ccga3359** · 5th February 08, 06:59 PM

Ron, I agree with Todd that the Nova Scotia is, IMO, the most beauiful of the provincial tartans. There is also a Nova Scotia Dress (STA# 973). Another option is to have an Acadian tartan designed and woven.

**macwilkin** · 5th February 08, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by ccga3359

Ron, I agree with Todd that the Nova Scotia is, IMO, the most beauiful of the provincial tartans. There is also a Nova Scotia Dress (STA# 973). Another option is to have an Acadian tartan designed and woven.

Acadians/Cajuns (at least the two I know) have adopted either the Nova Scotia or the Louisiana tartan.

T.