Tartan Etiquette

[Jock Scot]

aonghas, I get the matrilineage thing, my mom is Inupiak and ancestry is traced through her side of the family. Which given that was how I was raised, is why I posed the question to the thread that I did...just to be sure before I venture out of the realm of the Confederate Memorial tartan and the recently purchased R'lyeh Sett fabric and into the clan tartan. Wanna be sure I make an informed decision for THAT purchase, as that I would be representing my lineage specifically.

Alright chaps, remember that I said the choice of ones tartan "USUALLY" follows the fathers line. I did not say always. There are reasons why people choose to follow another route and that is fine. It is a tad strange though if your surname is for example MacOnion and you are wearing a MacKarrot tartan and it can only lead one to wonder what is going on. I venture to suggest and speaking very generally, that choosing a tartan ahead of your father's tartan because you prefer the colour scheme of another tartan is regarded as rather shallow thinking, by many over here.

The dreaded two hour tartan justification lecture, complete with faded pictures of great aunt Morag's second cousin's cousin, so loved by visitors from outwith these shores just does not happen here with the locals -----thank goodness!