So I'm kilted at my brother-in-law's wake in Ohio. A Scottish lady now living in the U.S.A working as a college professor, asks about my kilt's tartan. When I told her it was the Official State of Arizona tartan she felt she needed to "educate" me and said that tartans were only for clans. So explained I had a number of tartans in my various ancestral clans. So she felt she needed to further educate me that I should only have one kilt in one tartan, that of my father's clan. AND....that one kilt should have been handed down from my grandfather to my father to my son...didn't bother to tell her no son....she was quite well into the wine and feeling very sure of herself so I politely excused myself... but she wanted to continue the lecture. I just said something to the effect of, "Look, my ancestors were kicked out of Scotland during the Clearances so we've sort of changed 'the rules' a bit in the time since." Then I moved on to circulate more. Gotta love the helpful kilt professors...