Tartan ice breaker

[staticsan]

I know exactly how they feel, because I used to be one. Granted, I never approached anyone about their "right" to wear a tartan, but I always thought you HAD to wear your particular clan/region/etc. It was one of the reasons I didn't think I could wear a proper kilt...because I didn't know where my ancestry was from.

I've got the opposite problem: my mother is a MacGregor and does wear MacGregor tartan occasionally. She's actually very proud of it. But she also believes the need to have the right to wear it, which means, since I have my father's surname and not her's, she suspects I probably "don't".

OTOH, I know that choice of tartan is a fashion choice. It happens that I don't look bad in red (MacGregor is a mostly red tartan), so I can't argue my way into something more readily obtainable. Because a MacGregor tartan is hard to find, unfortunately.