Wearing kilts of other tartans than your clans.

[Jock Scot]

English Bloke.

What I was trying to say, was that in the highlands and in the highlanders minds, due to our upbringing, we think about tartans and more importantly the clan in a fairly singular way. I was trying to get the "rest of the world" to understand how I(we), in the land and home of the kilt view things. I hoped and I think I may have succeeded in a small way in getting that message across, to some. The Highland Scots cannot make anyone see our point of view and most certainly I(we) cannot make people only wear one tartan, all I(we) can do is try to educate others to bear our point of view in mind. Besides, we are far too polite to take visitors to task anyway,so worry not!

Wear your MacLeod tartan kilt by all means(have a look at JS's pictures in "his threads"!),all I (we) am asking for, is for people to be aware of the highland way of doing things and not made to feel,by some (not you by the way!), that it is rather an inconvenient fact that the kilt is highland Scots attire. It can get very tiresome, sometimes verging on arrogance, when a "foreigner" tries to tell us how to wear the the kilt and how we should or should not react to matters of kilt tradition and convention.Is all this, earth shatteringly important? Well, no it is not.