Wearing kilts of other tartans than your clans.

[Nighthawk]

I wear my clan tartan and only my clan tartan and have done for over 60 years.Most Scots,not all, who actually own a kilt would think along these lines.I think for two main reasons, firstly, because that is how they were brought up to think and secondly, cost.I am generalising here ,but most Scots only know about the "expensive" end of the kilt world and have little or no knowledge of anything else.

I have been on this website now for just over a year and I still find it very hard to understand(actually I still don't) why people with Scots roots want more than one tartan.Ok,I hear it now! "But I am a Campbell,with a Scott mother,with a Kerr grandmother,and a MacAthur twenty third cousin etc., so I can wear all those tartans",well yes you can if you insist, but we in Scotland usually choose our farther's tartan or the one we are closly connected to and that is that.In this part of Scotland,whilst nothing would be said,you would be written off as a poser if you were to wear a tartan of more than one Clan .

For those with no connection to a tartan, then I can quite understand that there in not a loyalty issue and can see the attraction of wearing different tartans.I hasten to add that it is all down to personal choice and cost and others will and do choose to follow a differing path to me.

Jock, I agree with you for the most part. I won't generally wear anything that I don't have a close connection with. I wear my fathers tartan, which is my avatar, as my family tartan. I wear the Clergy tartan because I'm a minister. I am planning to get a kilt from Colorado's tartan, as I am from Colorado. Otherwise I have solid color kilts, like a black Amerikilt and an Irish saffron, since my mother is Irish. I don't wear any tartan that I don't have a close connection to (well, aside from the Stewart black since it's considered universal, and a MacKenzie weathered for my reenactment group.) I also have to admit that I like a couple fashion tartans. I only have one, though- a SWK Nightstalker. So call me a poser if you like, but I am very choosey, and I (almost always) pick tartans that have special meanings for me. At this point, I have all the universal/fashion tartans that I will ever get.