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    Thank you all for giving me such a warm welcome.

    I've been reading a lot of older threads, along with some history from other web sites. I'll say that, at present, I'm strongly inclined to enroll in the "wear one tartan" school of thought. Having thought deeply about my family, its history and my own life, I'm drawn toward the Firefighters' Memorial tartan, and a kilt in the best style I can afford. Time to start saving my pennies.

    I don't wish to give the impression that I've joined the forum just to get the answer to what I suppose is a common question: "What should I buy?" Rather, I'm taking delight in what I'm learning here.

    Thanks once more.
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    Welcome from Eastern Washington State. Ties are a good place to start, but a kilt, now that's what one should have.
    Past President, St. Andrew's Society of the Inland Northwest
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    Greetings and Welcome from SoCal
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kiltman
    Ties are a good place to start, but a kilt, now that's what one should have.
    Absolutely. I see that my posts have been unclear in that regard. Ties are easy; ties are no problem. The world is full of ties.

    It's kilts that I'm scheming about.

    My usual dress is chinos, most of them in khaki, with casual shirts or open-collar, oxford cloth dress shirts. When I was a chemist, and before that in graduate school (population biology: genetics, ecology and evolution), the uniform was khakis and t-shirts. Later, when office-monkey attire was required, I've worn American-style, natural shoulder suits, but that's boring.

    In broad terms, I'm an Anglophile. Beyond that, seeing grown men in kilts when I was a boy on Vancouver Island impressed on my young brain that such was a normal, stylish way for grown men to dress. I've worn tweed jackets since I was old enough to buy a good sport coat (in other words, from the time had stopped growing dramatically and could expect to keep wearing a good jacket). I also enjoy wearing my waxed cotton Barbour Border jacket.

    I like owning "a few good things," rather than following the winds of fashion where'er they might blow. A good kilt in a tartan that I can be proud to wear is moving toward the top of the list.

    I don't have clearly identifiable Highland ancestors; some were "Scotch-Irish" which I'm given to believe was the name given to a mixed collection of people who came to North America after passing through Ireland. Who knows; maybe they'd been Border Reivers or displaced Highlanders. By contrast, the choice is more straightforward for people whose families have for generations been wearing the tartan that's named for them.

    So where do I feel loyalty? Firefighters. Even though the tradition in the land of the kilt's birth is (as I read these posts) to wear the tartan of one's blood kin, firefighters are a "family" to which I am proud to belong. Some of them are my blood relatives, as well.
    Last edited by Garry Oak; 2nd October 09 at 10:15 AM.

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