Clan Tartan Appropriateness

[Jock Scot]

I quite agree that the Clan Chief is the final arbiter over what is, or isn't the Clan tartan.

I know that it is a bit of a shock to many to discover that some Clan tartans are only a few years old, or only, at best, some 200 years old. Added to that, to then discover that there is considerable doubt over its authenticity due to the bogus claims of a brace of brothers is confusing and disheartening to some. However when all said and done the then Chief of the Clan has chosen it, he has spoken, that is how it is, and when added to the long and often grizzly history of Scotland peppered with almost daily skulduggery of one sort or another, it is all rather true to form and in its way, rather quaint and we really should not get too wound up about the finer points with the history of a particular tartan.

We Scots really don't give this Clan thing----tartan thing too much thought,on the whole we know the form about the Clan, its history, which is not necessarily the same as Clan tartan history, but still part of it. We do what we do, we think what we think and regard "our" tartan rather like a club colours rather than anything else.