Any non-clan, general tartan offered by any of the casual USA kiltmaers like Sport Kilts and USA Kilts, and there must be 50+ of them

Here are a bunch of registered tartans that I can happily choose from as well.

US Navy tartan (my Dad was a navy veteran), a dark, formal looking tartan.

The United States tartan is a beautiful dark blue tartan with red and white stripes.... very elegant.

California State Tartan, based on the Muir Family Tartan. I really like this tartan.

The California Dept. of Forestry, the California "Firefighters" and the California Highway Patrol all have registered tartans. The Forestry tartan is strong with natural green colors, and I really like it. I'm rather the outdoorsman, and spend a lot of time hiking in the forests of my sttate, and the Forest Dept.'s tartan would be a good match for me.

All the Irish County Tartans, the All-Ireland Green and Blue tartans. I quite like the All-Ireland blue.
And were I to follow on with this line of thinking, my questions would have to be;

What is the connection to the proud herritage of the Highland Regiments?
What is the connection to the; fire service, forrest service, highway patrol?
Being retired Navy myself, is your father's service a close enough connection to entitle you to that tartan? Should you choose the Polaris tartan, what is the connection to the submarine community?
District tartans? Are you or your family from that area?

And on and on, you see how it can go. If one looks hard enough, a question could be raised about most any tartan. I see the choice of a tartan to be something decided on by yourself, not made because of someone's opinion of the moment. There are several members of this board that claim absolutely no celtic herritage yet are quite happy and proud to wear tartan kilts.

My family can lay claim to Austin, Chattan, MacPhearson and MacQueen, I choose to wear the MacQueen for my own reasons but own several other kilts in "unrelated" tartans.

I know there are some kilt wearers that will strongly disagree with me on this view, that feel one must be "entitled" to wear a particular tartan. I find through research, common sense and the views of several tartan "authorities", the opposite to be true.

At the risk of being misunderstood (again) I will repeat my mantra: Wear what you like, like what you wear.

Mike