Subject Matter Expertise

**Freelander Sporrano** · 30th September 04, 01:35 PM

I'm in agreement too.
It's nice to know a little of the background to the tartan I wear. Of course this thread will be a bit of a joke to the non tartan wearers on the forum.We are maybe what the english call "Anoraks" or "Rivet counters"

Having said that. I won't buy a solid because I can't justify it in the area I live. A Tartan I can and do justify. A non tartan would be a bit of a shock for the locals. We're not so cosmopolitan in Norway.Thats why it'll be tartan for me.

Ps.zeytoun: My wife reads it not me

**macwilkin** · 30th September 04, 01:38 PM

The only "solid" kilt I would wear would be a tweed or a Hodden Grey tartan like the London Scottish wear (but not their exact kilt, obviously) -- also, Freedom kilt's Canadian camo kilt intrigues me, but I am a tartan man until the day I die!

Cheers,

T.

**Freelander Sporrano** · 30th September 04, 01:43 PM

Don't get me wrong. I think the utilikilts are really the great .I even concidered one as a kilt nr2 My order went to Bear instead.....

I felt after a chat with the wife, who's opinion I respect made me understand that Tartan was king

**Miah** · 30th September 04, 03:58 PM

As far as Non registered Tartans go , I like them the way I see it is why should I have to pay somebody over in Scotland to register a pattern of weave or color? If I say it is my family's tartan then that is what it is to me. I like that they keep track of what belongs to whom. I also Love some of the ones that I have Family or profecinal ties to and I love the history behind them and the reasons or the colors and all.
Honestly though I were to have a pattern made and call it my tartan, then it would be mine and I would have a story for it or even if I bought one that i loved the colors on and had a story for it then for me that is all I need.

**macwilkin** · 30th September 04, 05:58 PM

As far as Non registered Tartans go , I like them the way I see it is why should I have to pay somebody over in Scotland to register a pattern of weave or color?

The same reason we pay for patents and copyrights -- the more tartans there are, the more of a chance for duplication. The FBI and a Scottish Tourist authority designed almost identical tartans back in 1991, for example.

Cheers,

T.

**Blu (Ontario)** · 30th September 04, 06:49 PM

Interesting. However, I suspect that the rejection of ersatz tartans and plain fabrics may stem from a degree of concern that they perhaps blur the traditional notion of what defines "kilt". Understandably so.