This thread hasn't been dormant for too long, so I won't feel bad about reviving it. Preferably I'd only wear my clan tartan. When I got my kilt, I didn't know I had any Scottish ancestry. At that point I got a kilt in Lyndsay because it matched the one we already got for our 2 year old. I now feel a little self concious about it, but not so much that I don't wear the kilt. Like I say, I'd prefer to wear my clan tartan, Gordon, but probably only if I was involved in the clan, or at least had made some contact with other clan members and had a bit of an idea what was going on with them. Until that point I think I'll set my sights on the Huntly district tartan, which I've been told was the original Gordon tartan anyway and is certainly one of the older ones.

Aside from that I'd have no problem wearing a fashion or U.S. state tartan in addition to the clan tartan.