Hi Guys,

hope to be right in this thread.

Kiltwearing in Germany is a special thing.

You usually have three possibilities being without schottish roots:

1. You are member of a pipe band
2. You do scottish dancing
3. You are into medieval or gothic stuff

Regarding the kilt as an usual garment and fine alternative to trousers produces sceptic and pityful glances.

I do have to confess that I don't have any scottish roots - as far as I know though I was running to the library permanently when I was a little boy to listen to some pipe music records - but wearing the kilt instead of trousers seems to be a desirable thing to me.
It's practical, elegant and looks great!

Being from Hamburg originally where people are often compared to the British it seemed not so strange to me but in the south of Germany the situation is quite different. A Challenge!

Although I don't want to play being scottish I was glad to find a Smith tartan as my name is Schmidt. And though of course I can't be a clan member - exerpt there is a clan who wants to adopt me ;-) - I found the tartans of MacDonald and Macpherson - the clans Smith is usually associated with - as another fruitful field to look for alternatives.
In this way also the Gow (which is Smith in Gaelic) would be fine...

To repeat it: without any ambitíon to play Scot but having a little hint how to find a matching tartan. (but there are so many fantastic tartans without any reference too....)

So...before finishing this long post I make a little list of my actual favourites :-)

- Smith modern
- MacDonald ancient
- Cameron of Erracht modern
- Macpherson hunting ancient
- Gow modern
- Stewart of Appin hunting modern
- Black Watch ancient
- Buchanan ancient
- solid dark green (as hiking kilt)

Thanks and see you soon,

Tom