Quote Originally Posted by davidlpope View Post
At the risk of seeming a little oversensitive, I'm not sure that the idea of clown-kilts will be that well-received. Even for those of us who are non-Scots, there's a lot of significance tied to the traditional dress of the Highlands. I'm a bit worried that this will seem to be in bad taste, sort of like asking for brightly covered material to make "clown yarmulkes"...

That said, most fabric stores have a pretty wide range of generic tartans/ checks, some of them in heinously bright colors.

David
Highland dance choreographies are quite well-established in the highland dance world and are endorsed under the SOBHD umbrella. Generally, in competition, in order for the choreography to be judged the music, costumes and dance movements must be highland or celtic in nature. There's no need to worry, no one could be more respectable of tradition than a highland dancer and we would never, ever do something in bad taste.

Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu9pB...eature=related
In that whole choreo, I counted only 16 beats that weren't highland dance move. Everything else is a movement or whole steps from a highland dance.

SOBHD: Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing