Solid-colour kilt, Tweed kilt, or Universal tartan?

**Dale Seago** · 18th August 13, 04:02 PM

Any of the three choices would be great. However, were it my choice to make for my own first kilt, I'd go with a universal tartan. In fact, I just realized that of all the kilts I own -- three of which are in tartans "belonging to" my ancestral clan -- the kilt I wear the most is in the California state tartan.

**MacMillans son** · 18th August 13, 05:37 PM

Originally Posted by Dale Seago

Any of the three choices would be great.

I'm with Dale on this. I have kilts in all three, my first being my clan tartan, the second being a universal (Auld Scotland), and the third a district tartan (County Cavan), and the most recent being a handsome Harris Tweed in the Taransay pattern by our own Paul Henry. A glowing review of which I still owe the Rabble.

As you can see from the first picture, the tweed is chock full of wonderful colors brown,burgandy, blue, yellow, green and a few shades in between

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Any would serve you fine, but the tartan kilt is the most universally recognized outwith Scotland as a true kilt (if that is at all important to you).

Best luck with your choices!

**sailortats** · 18th August 13, 06:39 PM

Brooke, who is that strange person next to you wearing, of all things, p@nts. I would not have thought you associated with that type.

**MacMillans son** · 21st August 13, 07:29 PM

Originally Posted by sailortats

Brooke, who is that strange person next to you wearing, of all things, p@nts. I would not have thought you associated with that type.

I'm not sure who he is Phil. I thought that his blue shirt and pants helped to bring out the blue flecks in the tweed, so I asked him to stand next to me for the photo. Apparently, his name is Hoby

**tulloch** · 23rd August 13, 12:29 PM

Cameron of Erracht is a personal favorite.

**ProudGrandsonofClanGrant** · 23rd August 13, 12:41 PM

Tulloch,

I have always admired Cameron of Erracht myself.

Cheers

**BCAC** · 19th August 13, 09:42 AM

Nice kilt, Brooke.

A warm (belated) welcome to the PHKOC.

**sydnie7** · 19th August 13, 10:10 AM

District and "avocation" tartans (firefighter, the tartans associated with various military branches, etc.) can be an excellent choice. It gives the wearer more of a connection to the tartan. For example, Bob really likes his Leatherneck kilt.

There are also tartans associated with non-Celtic family background -- I think the German Heritage has been mentioned -- I have a length of the elusive Dutch Friendship waiting to go under the needle one of these days. . .

**Grizzly** · 19th August 13, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by BCAC

Nice kilt, Brooke.

A warm (belated) welcome to the PHKOC.

I'll second that, very nice Brooke.

**ProudGrandsonofClanGrant** · 19th August 13, 02:24 PM

Thanks for the opinions guys, I'll pass this thread on to my friend. It seems that tartan is the preferred choice. I had suggested solids and patterned tweed because I have been interested in them lately. I think that they are a great way to be traditional, and the option to go with anything other than tartan often gets overlooked. Tartan certainly identifies the garment as a kilt, but a nice patterned tweed or solid can be quite attractive as well. MacMillans son demonstrates that with his Harris Tweed kilt (very sharp.) Thank you for the photo.

Cheers,

Nick