Acceptable Plaids

**Jack Daw** · 13th April 08, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by ~JM~

Hi folks, thanks for having me. I’m new to kilts and have a few questions with the first one being, what plaid is acceptable for a great kilt? The local fabric stores have a few plaids and to get things started I bought the cheapest just to practice putting it on. In the store the stuff I bought didn't look all that bad but when I got it home it started looking like a table cloth...thoughts? Any tips on picking out non-tartan plaids for the great kilt?

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Thank you.

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JM, I have a large piece of tartan that I hand-pleat and belt into a great kilt. I use the MacIntyre hunting. I sense that you dont want a clan tartan for the sake of historical accuracy, but the MacIntyre hunting tartan existed just as such before it was adopted as the clan tartan. I wear mine guiltless of historical inaccuracy.

**Nick the DSM** · 13th April 08, 02:35 PM

who is gonna know any way if its accurate or not. i bet maybe one in 50,000 would know.

**Woodsheal** · 13th April 08, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by Nick the DSM

who is gonna know any way if its accurate or not. i bet maybe one in 50,000 would know.

So many reenactors and "living history" types have been bitten by this attitude: "I can get away with this (non-authentic/anachronistic item) because the public is too stupid to know better," only to have some knowledgeable spectator approach them and call them out on their blunder - much to the hobbyist's embarrassment and the derision of his fellows....

**Ian.MacAllan** · 13th April 08, 09:44 PM

There is some historical evidence that tartan was not the only material used for clothing in the Highlands. I think an earth-tone tweed or solid color should be acceptable, especially for a belted plaid.

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**elrond** · 14th April 08, 12:38 AM

Welcome from Italy!

**~JM~** · 14th April 08, 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by Jack Daw

JM, I have a large piece of tartan that I hand-pleat and belt into a great kilt. I use the MacIntyre hunting. I sense that you dont want a clan tartan for the sake of historical accuracy, but the MacIntyre hunting tartan existed just as such before it was adopted as the clan tartan. I wear mine guiltless of historical inaccuracy.

The more I read the more interest I have for finding a kilt in my family plead.