stuck choosing a tartan

**Liam** · 25th November 15, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by brbaritone

Perhaps you should consider ordering a sash in the same tartan as a thank-you to your wife for helping you make the decision!

Always a good idea!

**OC Richard** · 27th November 15, 06:14 AM

A very nice choice!

Of course we will want to see photos of your lovely kilt and you wearing it, when your kilt arrives

**Sean Wilson** · 22nd December 15, 01:09 PM

Well the long awaited day finally came. I was so excited when I unpacked my kilt (16oz wool 8 yard Wilson Ancient Tartan from Lochcarron Mills). It was the first time I had tried on a wool kilt and was blown away by the difference to my 16oz PV kilts. I love the feel, love the fit, love the look...

Thank you all for your advice and feedback to my OP.

As promised I've attached photos.

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**Jock Scot** · 22nd December 15, 01:27 PM

Well done laddie!

**MacKenzie** · 22nd December 15, 01:44 PM

Very sharp!

Beautiful tartan.

**Dughlas mor** · 22nd December 15, 02:24 PM

You look great, and I am impressed that you went from choosing a tartan to owning an eight yard wool kilt in about a month! Just in time for Christmas.

**Sean Wilson** · 22nd December 15, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by Dughlas mor

You look great, and I am impressed that you went from choosing a tartan to owning an eight yard wool kilt in about a month! Just in time for Christmas.

I was suprised too. The delivery date was sceduled for mid-January... but really please it came early. I'm really happy with it.

**Chip** · 22nd December 15, 04:26 PM

Excellent! Wonderful tartan, and you wear it very well. There is a pride and confidence that shines through the lens.

**OC Richard** · 22nd December 15, 05:16 PM

What a gorgeous kilt! And well-modelled too. You will get compliments everywhere you wear it.

I do love the feel of a 16oz wool kilt. Nothing else is quite like it, certainly not my 13oz kilt, nor my super-heavy MOD weight kilt. The 16oz is "just right" somehow.

Thanks for posting the photos!

**O'Callaghan** · 22nd December 15, 06:14 PM

I suppose there's no real point now that you've bought the kilt, but AFAIK the Wilson tartan is not a clan tartan atall, IOW there never was a Wilson clan. Although that's OK really.

The clue comes from it first being woven by Wilson's of Bannockburn, who were the first commercial tartan mill. Before that it was all craft weaving. That is, it's the tartan they wove to represent their own family. However, as good businessmen they would have been enthusiastic to have woven it for anyone called Wilson, or for anyone else, really.

A large fraction of known tartans are in fact really named after Wilson's customers, and not vicea versa. Yes, that's right, Wilson's didn't weave most of them because that clan had worn that sett for time immemorial. Rather, someone in the McRhubarb clan chose that tartan from the Wilson's catalogue, and thus it became the McRhubarb tartan. Not all tartans were named that way of course, just a very large number.

I'm sure no-one in Scotland would question it, as long as you keep to one. AFAIK, there are far more 'clans' now than ever really existed.

If all this sounds a bit rich coming from someone of Irish descent, we never really had clan tartans, although there were certainly Irish clans at one time. OTOH, anyone can register anything new with any name as long as they supply a swatch, and there are many registered tartans that just happen to correspond in name to Irish clans. Many would like to think it's a lot different for Scottish clans. Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't.

Nice kilt, BTW.