Quote Originally Posted by Cygnus View Post
Maybe it was the same source that I generally use - C. R. MacKinnon's Scottish Tartans and Highland Dress (1970. Glasgow/London: Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.). In multiple places he states that tartan hose are the preferred hose for formal morning dress. Perhaps that is a less-accepted tradition that MacKinnon espoused, and he's leading people astray; though I would guess that it was the accepted form at one time or another, even if it is not so now.
[Sigh] I do appreciate that your background and upbringing means that you have to rely on what information you can glean from whatever source you can. I have nothing to fall back upon other than a Scottish upbringing, among Scottish people, following the traditions of kilt-wearing passed down to me by them. To find that all of this has now been traduced by the writings of Mr C.R. MacKinnon is deeply disturbing for me but such is life. I now have to come to terms with that and promise that hereafter I shall lead my life according to his teachings. Thank you so much for leading a Scottish ingenue into the true ways of kilt-wearing.