"Rules" for wearing family tartan

**Bugbear** · 28th March 10, 09:46 PM

Well looking back at 187 on page 19, then reading a few more posts:

Originally Posted by robthehiker

Hug a guy in a skirt?? No way!!

Ah, now, come on.

I stand by my right to have expressed the way I was feeling about some of the kilt discussions.

And with that,

**Brian K** · 28th March 10, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

I stand by my right to have expressed the way I was feeling about some of the kilt discussions.

And with that,

Hey, that's fine by me, but I'd take it more seriously if I didn't see you hiding under that chair so often

**Macman** · 29th March 10, 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

I stand by my right to have expressed the way I was feeling about some of the kilt discussions.

And with that,

You do have the right, Ted. You always exress yourself respectfully.
Wear that tartan with pride. It has meaning for you, and that's all that matters. There will always be people you meet who will disagree with what you want to wear, especially if you're going to wear the kilt. It's good to get and listen to advice from the members here, and we all learn from that. In the end, though, we have to take what we've learned and, if I may quote, "Kilt On!"

**Bugbear** · 29th March 10, 11:20 AM

Originally Posted by Macman

You do have the right, Ted. You always exress yourself respectfully.
Wear that tartan with pride. It has meaning for you, and that's all that matters. There will always be people you meet who will disagree with what you want to wear, especially if you're going to wear the kilt. It's good to get and listen to advice from the members here, and we all learn from that. In the end, though, we have to take what we've learned and, if I may quote, "Kilt On!"

Well, thanks, Macman. I do have a swatch of my tartan that I sometimes wear.

I looked at the OP of this thread. Sometimes, maybe having to stretch the family ties back two hundred years might feel like a bit much, and a tartan for something other than a clan might have more personal meaning. Perhaps a state tartan?

**BoldHighlander** · 29th March 10, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

I looked at the OP of this thread. Sometimes, maybe having to stretch the family ties back two hundred years might feel like a bit much, and a tartan for something other than a clan might have more personal meaning. Perhaps a state tartan?

200 years is nothing mate.
For some members of my family for instance, the War Between the States seemed like it happened just yesterday. Stories about other ancestors who fought at the Alamo, in the Revolutionary War, & lived in Ulster (North Ireland) are told so often that present generations almost feel like they know these people personally. I'm sure its that way for others here too.
Even if you don't feel that yourself Ted, remember that you have the blood of your ancestors in your veins. And in the end it matters not what anyone else thinks or says, its what you feel in your heart my friend.
Wear your chosen tartan with pride!

**robthehiker** · 29th March 10, 03:52 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

I stand by my right to have expressed the way I was feeling about some of the kilt discussions.

I truly think that everyone here stands by your right to express the way you're feeling Ted.

**Bugbear** · 29th March 10, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by robthehiker

I truly think that everyone here stands by your right to express the way you're feeling Ted.

Well then, please be seated.

I didn't mean to take over this thread.

Sorry about that.

**Andrew M. Stewart** · 1st April 10, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by The Scotsman

I think you are under the false assumption that something is more "real" because it is from an earlier period. Highland culture has evolved (thankfully) from the old days when life was a lot more harsh and people were a lot more rough. The comparison that you make would be akin to saying that the culture of Native American Indians living in the 21st century is not "real" because they don't live and dress the same way Native American Indians lived and dressed 200 years ago:

Is this Highlander more "real" than this one?

or how about this one?

My point was, this whole notion of who has the rights to certain tartans is a rather new one and one that has more to do with the lowlands than the highlands.
Old Malcolm MacPherson AKA Calum Piobair ( The guy in black and white) probably didn't care who's tartan he was wearing, he probably just like it.

**Andrew M. Stewart** · 1st April 10, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by davidlpope

Those are blackcock feathers, not eagle feathers.

Cordially,

David

Are you sure? I noticed the feathers in a video of some of the guys from our pipe band, The 48th Highlanders of Canada, in Aberdeen last spring on Tartan day playing with the Gordons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkQI_...eature=related