"Rules" for wearing family tartan

[Dixiecat]

True, which shows that Highlanders were dressing to the nines well before the Victorian period - in opposition to the earlier argument that a "real Highlander" would not go in for such ornament.

No it doesn't show that at all. It shows that highlanders of a particular social status and wealth dressed like that on special or court occasions. They certainly wouldn't wear that gear everyday. You can't take what you see in portraits of wealthy or royal, or both men as what 'real' highlanders were wearing at the period the portrait was painted.

[Dixiecat]

Well for those who think that we must dress as the average, impoverished Highland peasant when wearing the kilt in order to be "authentic," they should be prepared to go about unbathed and infested with lice and fleas as part of their "historical authenticity."

I see the more genteel style of the late 19th and early 20th century to be the superior point of development where the kilt is concerned.

Holy....Love how you put words in peoples mouths. Not sure where you got the above from me pointing out that not even the two men in the portraits wore that gear everyday. I guess from your point of view, anyone that didn't wear that gear shown in the portraits must of been one of the unbathed and flea infested. Can't wait to see you in everyday highland gear. Please post that pic asap, so we can see how unbathed and flea infested you are.